DVD filesystems & capacity

[Byron Sonne]

Hey all,

I hear numbers tossed around all the time such as '4.7 GB' for the 
amount of space a DVD can hold.

I hope to get a DVD burning drive soon (Pioneer A06U) primarily for the 
purposes of archiving data *and* keeping it easily accessible. Mostly 
small graphics files and longer video clips, but there will also be code 
snippets, tgz, etc.

I'd like to ask those of you who burn DVDs under linux what your 
experience with effective DVD capacity has been. I would like to keep 
doing it with the standard mkisofs & cdrecord pairing of utils, with 
appropriate compensations made for the difference in medium.

Regards,
Byron

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