G T Smith wrote:
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Jim Flanagan wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble burning over 4.2 GB files onto DVD's with K3B, in
opensuse 10.2. My Suse 9.3 version burned up to 4.7 GB with no problem.
Is there a setting I need to change?
Many thanks,
Jim F
I think someone needs to put a FAQ somewhere, a 4.7Gb DVD holds about
4.3Bb data. One could try overburning, but this is not a recommendable
approach. There apparently is an issue with images close to 4Gb and the
implementation of isofs as implemented in Linux.
10.2 uses a different set of tools to 9.3 for CD/DVD burning. K3B was
originally designed to work with the older tools and does not always
interact well with the current tools when burning. I tend to use K3B to
build an ISO image but do any burning from the command line nowadays
(curiously once I got used to it I find it a bit easier).
Under 9.3 DVD burning was a little less twitchy about media types than
the current tools. Entering the following at command line is usually
reliable both as a test, and burning an extant image.
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z <dvd device>=<iso image>
This variant could be tried...
growisofs -dvd-compat -overburn -Z <dvd device>=<iso image>
but I do not know whether it would work.
9.3 was less twitchy. I am trying to burn iso images just over 5.5gb in
size. This was no problem in 9.3. Is there a reason the newer version of
k3b in 10.2 works differently? I thought udf file format was udf file
format, same for all. Is there an update for k3b perhaps?
Jim F
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