>
> : > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'.
> : > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB
> : > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using
> : > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while.
> :
> :In my experience, this is not true. I have used blank=fast on a CDRW
> :that has over 500 MB written, and then written another 500 MB without
> :a problem.
>
> Really? I'll have to mess with it some more. Maybe I had tried to
> write more data then I thought in my last test.
>
I just happen to be writing another cd 8)
mkisofs -R /mount/cdrom | cdrecord -blank=fast -v fs=10m speed=3 -
Track 01: 597 MB written (fifo 100%).Total extents actually written = 311018
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1076001
Total directory bytes: 3112960
Path table size(bytes): 15778
Max brk space used 84a29c
311018 extents written (607 Mb)
Track 01: 607 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 636964864/636964864 (311018 sectors).
Writing time: 2190.437s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 129.090s
cdrecord: fifo had 10034 puts and 10034 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 9713 times full, min fill was 89%.
This is like the third time that I writing pretty much the same image
to the CD.
Enjoy
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