On 01/11/2010 02:56 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 01/11/2010 02:40 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote: > >> I am trying to setup backup software (Bacula) on my home >> network and ran into a real dumb newbie DVD question I haven't >> been able to google an answer to (at least an answer I could >> understand) since I have never used writable DVDs before. >> >> How does one write a iso filesystem onto a blank DVD+R disk >> without writing any files, and leaving the DVD writable (i.e, >> not finalized if that this the right term)? The growisofs >> and mkisofs man pages are mostly greek to me. Is there a >> magic cookbook incantation I can use until I can figure >> out all the techy details?\ >> > It's pretty simple: > > growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /path/file1 /path/file2 ... > > When you want to add more files: > > growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /path/to/more/files ... > > The magic is replacing the "-Z" (meaning "initialize session") with > "-M" (merge data into session). When you finally want to close the > session: > > growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero > > which fills out the rest of the session with zeroes. > Is there also a way to read the different sessions (or states of the session)? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
