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Re: how to obtain multisession info for DVD?



Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:

> Hello. I used to use 'cdrdao disk-info' to obtain a list of multisession
> information for a CDR, like whether if it is appendable, how much space
> left on it etc.
>
> Now doing
> $ cdrdao disk-info /dev/dvd
> seems to produce wrong information (e.g. sataing total capacity is some
> 300MB).
>
> So what do you guys use to check disk-info of DVDs?

use cdrecord -minfo

> Further I just wish to know if multisession DVD cannot have more then
> 4GB data written on it? (4G is a digit sounds familiar with me, look
> like the max number can be repersented by a 4-byte unsigned intger).
> Several quick googles doesn't lead me to an answer.

This is not true.

One empty "multi-session" takes less than 1/1000th of the total DVD size.

Jörg

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