On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 10:34 -0500, yonas abraham wrote: > is there an easy was to duplicate 4.7GB, unencrypted home made DVD's > easly? Almost what you're already doing, but no need to use any special program to copy your DVD to a file before reburning it, just use "dd". For example: dd if=/dev/dvd of=/tmp/backup.iso growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/backup.iso rm /tmp/backup.iso (Modify to suit your own system requirements.) NB: You shouldn't even have to use growisofs in some special way, even a DVD capable cdrecord should be able to do the job, as you've already mastered your DVD in the proper way, and the "dd" program will replicate it "as-is". It's easy enough, just time consuming. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.