Testing your the On 6/7/07, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
For your purposes, I would suggest that you don't use a filesystem on the disk and just write the raw log file out, or maybe a tar data stream. If you pipe it though dd to reblock you should be able to write it directly to the cd-r without pktcdvd.
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work in 2.6.21.3. In testing, 'dd if=/var/log/messages of=/dev/hdc bs=2048' results in dd's immediate failure with the message: 'dd: opening `/dev/hdc': Read-only file system', regardless of what the permissions are on the device. Attempting to pass the data through 'cdrecord -packet -noclose' has some interesting results (i.e., next writable addr. increments as remaining writable decrements), but I can't read anything past the first 2048 bytes using dd. Physically, the track is obviously growing, but if I can't read that it's pretty useless. Through pretty exhaustive testing, it would seem the only method one can [right now] packet-write to -R media is via 'cdrecord -packet', but I have yet to read data written in that manner. RB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: packet-writing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: packet-writing+help@opensuse.org