Dual layer dvd burning

[John Summerfield]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> Tony Nelson wrote:
>>>> At 6:26 PM -0500 11/19/07, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>>>  ...
>>>>> While the drives are capable of holding 8GB of data, the filesystem is
>>>>> *still* not capable of holding a file >= 2GB.  This is usually not a
>>>>> problem when writing video onto these drives as the VOB filesize is <
>>>>> 2GB anyways.  When using them to write backups of large files, games
>>>>> must be played to get the data to fit.
>>>> Why use a filesystem?  I just put a tar archive directly on the media.
>>>> Growisofs doesn't care what file you burn.
>>> Uh, yes, it does.  It creates an ISO fs containing the file(s) you want
>>> burnt, and the ISO fs is where the 2GB filesize limit is.
>> It doesn't insist on it, see the man page:
>>        To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:
>>
>>             growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso
> 
> We're still talking apples and oranges here.  You keep talking about
> writing ISO filesystems that are already built.  I keep talking about

Now you're misunderstanding plain English!

That example is from the man page. The fact it contains a prebuilt ISO 
filesystem is immaterial, it's a file and growisofs is just writing a 
file to the DVD, doing no processing and not (AFAIK) verifying it's an 
ISO image.

If that does not work (and I think that improbable), try a DVD-capable 
cdrecord.

The "=" is important. Without it, I would expect growisofs to wrap the 
file into an isofs.




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