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? Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of the sessions. My feeling is that writing an empty filesystem on a media buys nothing and that's why there's no neat command to do it. If you don't want to write data then why write anything? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
