FC3 can no longer successfully burn CDs]

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Jan 16 16:54:30 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:51:13AM -0500, Fulko Hew wrote:
> >Thats correct behaviour. The end of a CD is very low accuracy only.
> 
> OK.  But (in my nievity) doesn't that make it difficult to 'dup' CDs?
> ie. you couldn't do a:   dd if=/dev/cdrom of=test.iso bs=2048

Each copy will gradually get a bit longer unless you know the real .iso size
(which is easy to find). The iso file system knows its own size so it ignores
the padding




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