Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-03 Thread Tim
Tim: >> When one uses features like "burnproof" so that the burning process can >> pad out buffer underruns, and keep on burning until more data comes >> through, instead of halting, is that transparent to the (later) reading >> of the disc, or a likely cause of this sort of problem? Andre Robatin

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-03 Thread Andre Robatino
Tim yahoo.com.au> writes: > > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:52 -0700, JD wrote: > > The actual physical size on the DVD seems to have been padded by 10240 > > bytes (not sure if that is done during dvd burn, or during dvd read), > > When one uses features like "burnproof" so that the burning process

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread JD
On 10/02/2010 04:40 PM, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:52 -0700, JD wrote: >> The actual physical size on the DVD seems to have been padded by 10240 >> bytes (not sure if that is done during dvd burn, or during dvd read), > When one uses features like "burnproof" so that the burning proces

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 10:52 -0700, JD wrote: > The actual physical size on the DVD seems to have been padded by 10240 > bytes (not sure if that is done during dvd burn, or during dvd read), When one uses features like "burnproof" so that the burning process can pad out buffer underruns, and keep o

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread JD
On 10/02/2010 04:03 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Andre Robatino > mailto:robat...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: > > JD gmail.com > writes: > > > I burned Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to blank dvd. > > One time I used wodim, and 2nd

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread JD
On 10/02/2010 01:40 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > JD gmail.com> writes: > >> I burned Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to blank dvd. >> One time I used wodim, and 2nd time I used growisofs. >> After each burn, I would dd the dvd back in: >> >> dd if=/dev/sr0 of=f14.iso bs=2k >> >> In both cases the s

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread Andre Robatino
Gregory Woodbury gmail.com> writes: > One can also tell dd to read by single physical layer sectors using the "bs=2048"option. This may increase the read time a bit, but generally results in s more consistent > chance of getting the correct size.-- G.Wolfe Woodbury  The rawread script does this

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread Gregory Woodbury
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > JD gmail.com> writes: > > > I burned Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to blank dvd. > > One time I used wodim, and 2nd time I used growisofs. > > After each burn, I would dd the dvd back in: > > > > dd if=/dev/sr0 of=f14.iso bs=2k > > > > In bot

Re: size discrepancy

2010-10-02 Thread Andre Robatino
JD gmail.com> writes: > I burned Fedora-14-Beta-i386-DVD.iso to blank dvd. > One time I used wodim, and 2nd time I used growisofs. > After each burn, I would dd the dvd back in: > > dd if=/dev/sr0 of=f14.iso bs=2k > > In both cases the size of f14.iso was 10240 bytes larger than > Fedora-14-Be

Re: size discrepancy after tarring a dir

2010-09-06 Thread Phil Meyer
On 09/03/2010 03:21 PM, JD wrote: >I have two mounted disks, both ext3 mounted > as > /sdb1 > /sdc1 > > On /sdb1 I have a directory, let's call it dirx. > > 1. rm -rf /sdc1/dirx > > 2. cd /sdb1 > 3. tar cf - dirx | tar -C /sdc1 -xpf - > > Neither dir (/sdb1 and /sdc1) are not accessed by any

Re: size discrepancy after tarring a dir

2010-09-03 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/04/2010 05:21 AM, JD wrote: > I have two mounted disks, both ext3 mounted > as > /sdb1 > /sdc1 > > On /sdb1 I have a directory, let's call it dirx. > > 1. rm -rf /sdc1/dirx > > 2. cd /sdb1 > 3. tar cf - dirx | tar -C /sdc1 -xpf - > > Neith

Re: size discrepancy after tarring a dir

2010-09-03 Thread JD
On 09/03/2010 04:40 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03Sep2010 14:21, JD wrote: > | I have two mounted disks, both ext3 mounted > | as > | /sdb1 > | /sdc1 > | > | On /sdb1 I have a directory, let's call it dirx. > | > | 1. rm -rf /sdc1/dirx > | > | 2. cd /sdb1 > | 3. tar cf - dirx | tar -C /sd

Re: size discrepancy after tarring a dir

2010-09-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 03Sep2010 14:21, JD wrote: | I have two mounted disks, both ext3 mounted | as | /sdb1 | /sdc1 | | On /sdb1 I have a directory, let's call it dirx. | | 1. rm -rf /sdc1/dirx | | 2. cd /sdb1 | 3. tar cf - dirx | tar -C /sdc1 -xpf - | | Neither dir (/sdb1 and /sdc1) are not accessed by any p