DVD filesystems & capacity

[Grant Cullen]

I used mkisofs to build, dvdrecord to burn using a Pioneer drive, I don't
remember the model it was about 8 months ago and the drive was current.  The
OS was Redhat 7.3.  Lennart's comment of about 4.5 GB sounds about right.
We were storing historical data backups.

Grant Cullen
JADALL Consulting Ltd.
grant.cullen-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
416-706-4447

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org]On Behalf Of Byron
Sonne
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 13:06
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: DVD filesystems & capacity


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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