I'm trying to figure out how to stash data files on my new Blu-Ray writer under linux, and I'm using up media faster than I'm learning anything :-).
Supposedly, I can write 25025314816 bytes to a single sided BD-R, and if I collect a list of files almost that big and run them through mkisofs -print-size, it tells me the iso image would be 12066268 sectors, or 24711716864 bytes, which by golly should fit. But if I try to burn that same collection using k3b, it gets about 98% through and tells me it ran out of space. If I run dvd+rw-mediainfo on another blank media, I see this totally confusing information: READ FORMAT CAPACITIES: unformatted: 12219392*2048=25025314816 00h(3000): 11826176*2048=24220008448 32h(3000): 11826176*2048=24220008448 32h(25000): 7369728*2048=15093202944 32h(1000): 12088320*2048=24756879360 That 24220008448 number is awfully close to 98% of 24711716864, so is that the real capacity of a Blu-Ray for storing data, or is the default write technique k3b is using not the one I want? What the heck do those different format capacities mean? Thanks for anything you can do to un-confuse me :-). (k3b, by the way is absolutely hopeless at estimating sizes - it tells me there is 2.1 TB of free space on the media). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111128144016.112b1e3a@zooty
