On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:38, Peter Kiem wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any experience with DVD+RW burning in Fedora? I am > trying to do it from command line (rather than use something like k3b) > as I am trying to work this into my backup scripts. > > I used to use a CD-RW drive for doing backups but just replaced the > drive with a DVD+RW drive to cut down on the number of discs I have to > write. > > No matter what I did I couldn't get dvdrecord working as a replacement > for cdrecord. Errors ranged from "cannot burn > 100 mins" to "Wrong > media". > > After a bit of reading I found the growisofs command which seemed to > work fine. This is the command I gave to burn a 3GB tar file to the > DVD+RW > > growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom holding.tar > > Now growisofs SAID it wrote the full 3GB and looking at the disc it > certainly has used most of the area as you can see where it has written > the data. > > But when I try to read the disc in either of 2 DVD drives I have on the > system I can only see a 13MB file! > > Any ideas cause this has got me stumped :( I use X-CDroast to burn DVD-RW's. But to do that with X-Cdroast (For example) one needs to download another program to allow that to happen. This site will help in that area http://www.xcdroast.org/ With the Cdrecord.ProDVD file, I can burn the full 4.7GB's without a problem (I use it for system backups too). Just take note that you need a special key to be able to burn at full capacity (That info is shown on the main page). There may be other ways to do it, but I found this way much easier for me, and it may help you too. Wolf
