Stuart McGraw wrote:
I am trying to setup backup software (Bacula) on my home network and ran into a real dumb newbie DVD question I haven't been able to google an answer to (at least an answer I could understand) since I have never used writable DVDs before.
How does one write a iso filesystem onto a blank DVD+R disk without writing any files, and leaving the DVD writable (i.e, not finalized if that this the right term)? The growisofs and mkisofs man pages are mostly greek to me. Is there a magic cookbook incantation I can use until I can figure out all the techy details?
Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of the sessions. My feeling is that writing an empty filesystem on a media buys nothing and that's why there's no neat command to do it. If you don't want to write data then why write anything?