Re: DVD-R as backup medium: growisofs + udftools
"Giuseppe \"Cowo\" Corbelli" <cowo@lugbs.linux.it> wrote:
> Hi all
> I need an advice, plz.
> I'm trying to backup a couple of GBs upon a DVD-R using Plextor PX-810SA,
What drive is this? Is this a Lite-ON?
> To start I thought about using packet writing / udftools. By reading
> documentation, it states that I have to
Wny?
>
> dvd+rw-format -force /dev/sr0
>
> for RW media only, so I guess this is not applicable to -R, right?
Why do you ike to do this at all?
> Then I have to:
> <quote>
> Write an empty session spanning the whole medium. It seems that
> without this step, any attempt to create the UDF filesystem will fail.
>
> DVD-RW: growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/zero
> </quote>
With DVD-R as well as with DVD+R, this is expected to create a nice coaster.
> But this does not sound good to me. Wouldn't this just waste my media?
Of course, see above.
Why don't you just write using mkisofs and cdrecord?
Jörg
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