K3b sees 4.7GB DVD+R as 4.4 GB

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Jan 14 13:41:52 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 00:36 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Hello. I want to burn to dvd some data which is just a tad over 4.4GB.
> I have some Sony 4.7GB DVD+R blank media. However K3b insists that the
> media is two small for the data. Anyone has an idea what is actually
> going on?
> 
> Thank you.
As has already been said by Peter, this is a marketing speak.

When I do backups to DVD I set the software to make a maximum size iso
of 4400MB. that is just under 4.4GB and it works.

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