On 01/11/2010 04:09 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Stuart McGraw wrote:
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)?
Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of the sessions.
Ah, ok. I had tried the -Z option with a small file and thought I ended up with a finalized disk because bacula reported the disk had 0 bytes of free space left. But I may have misinterpreted what I was seeing (or its message may have been bogus.)
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?
Because it's not me but the backup program that wants to write to the DVD and (I think) it wants a mounted DVD to write to. However, looking at another source of info, I may be wrong about that too.
Thanks for the info.