On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:44:01PM -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> Does dvd+rw-format -blank work for anybody on FC1 or FC2?
I haven't tried blanking, but after the initial formating, growisofs
has apparently been doing the right thing for me. Even though Linus
has warned against using dump/restore (no guarantees of cache vs.
disk consistency) I've been successfully running backups using the
following script to pretend DVD+RW are sequential access devices like
tape drives:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Run this script, then run
# # dump 0ubBf 32 4590208 /tmp/dvdin /
#
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
PIPE=${1-/tmp/dvdin}
if [ ! -p $PIPE ]; then
if [ -e $PIPE ]; then
echo 1>&2 "$0: pipe \"$PIPE\" exists but is not FIFO!"
exit 1
fi
if ! mkfifo $PIPE
then
exit 1
fi
fi
# For pre-2.6 kernels, use ide-scsi (/dev/scd0)
exec growisofs -Z /dev/hdc=$PIPE
