I'm trying to write a large file (~4 GB) to a DVD using growisofs.
The writing process (seemingly) proceeds along just fine, but the file
isn't getting written correctly. On a Windows machine the file shows
up as the correct size, but only as ~8 MB on my Linux machine. I've
written other DVDs without trouble, and though I don't recall any with
a single file this large, it is just this one that is causing
problems.
Gary
~>growisofs -version
* growisofs by , version 5.12,
front-ending to mkisofs: mkisofs 2.01a17 (i686-suse-linux)
~>growisofs -Z /dev/sr2 -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/
Executing 'mkisofs -l -r -J /home/hodges/dvd/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/sr2
obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/sr2: pre-formatting blank DVD+RW...
/dev/sr2: "Current Write Speed" is 4.0x1385KBps.
0.25% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 1 19:34:04 2004
### Intermediate lines deleted ###
99.99% done, estimate finish Wed Sep 1 16:07:51 2004
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 251
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 21864
1995277 extents written (3897 Mb)
/dev/sr2: flushing cache
/dev/sr2: stopping de-icing
/dev/sr2: writing lead-out
/dev/sr2: reloading tray
# The original file
~>ls -lh dvd/hda8.dd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 smith users 3.9G 2004-08-31 10:52 dvd/hda8.dd.gz
# After being written to the DVD
~>ls -lh /media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8.7M 2004-08-31 10:52
/media/dvd/hda8.dd.gz
# After being copied from the DVD to the hard drive
~>ls -lh temp/hda8.dd.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 8.7M 2004-09-01 16:55 temp/hda8.dd.gz
