On Wednesday 17 October 2007 17:01:18 G T Smith wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2007-10-16 at 13:18 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
Hello guys,
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It would also be possible to burn the tar file "raw", meaning absolutely no directory overhead:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=sometarfile.tar -dvd-compat -speed=8
this way you can burn the 4700 MB. Of course, reading it back needs a little trick (use dd, not mount).
You do not need dd (or mount), tar with with the DVD/CD device name as target does it nicely for reading (and writing). I would expect multi-volume tar to work in the same way as it would with a tape device in this scenario...
One can effectively treat a writeable DVD/CD as datastream media (i.e. like a tape Basically the track layout is the same as that of a vinyl record, a long spiral, not a block and sector layout like a floppy or HD..).
Only if you have packet-cd installed and configured. And I believe even then it will only work with CD-RW. In general, you always need software to write to a disc, and other than packet-cd, that isn't built into the kernel Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org