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Re: how to use growisofs to merge (-M) on the fly ?



Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> The problem is that mkisofs can't build the image without knowing the 
> size of the items for the directory entries, and it seems to get that 
> information by looking at the sizes first. Someone could do what you 
> want, I think, by writing a directory entry with a one block size, 
> writing the file, and then writing a correct directory as another 
> "fix-up session" after the data was written. It may be possible to put 
> the record in the same session, I haven't researched this, as it's not 
> my problem. And won't be unless the media being burned gets so large I 
> can't afford to keep an image on a spare partition used just for that.

Check the cdrecord documentation to learn how it works.....
It is possible if you do it right and it is documented.

Jörg

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