On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:06:06 +0200 Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb ext Dale: > > > Thought I would move this problem to a new thread. It may not be > > related to the DVD itself. This is what I am currently testing. I > > used Kbackup to create a tarball in my /backup directory. I have > > the most basic setup for Kbackup at the moment. It creates the > > tarball but does not compress the files themselves but creates > > a .tar file. I think it takes the files, places it in the tarball > > then compresses it or something. I'm not real sure how Kbackup > > does its thing. I have it set to create tarballs and the limit is > > 4.4Gbs. I set it just short of a full 4.7Gb. > > Hmm, never tried it myself so I don't know wether it works or not, > but what about enabling CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD in the kernel and let > tar write to the device directly? > > Like: > > modprobe pktcdvd > pktsetup backup /dev/cdrom > tar -cMvf /dev/pktcdvd/backup myfiles # Change disc when prompted > pktsetup -d backup > rmmod pktcdvd > > Bye... > > Dirk AFAIK packet writing is intended for using RW media as a "normal" block device. I have never tried it myself either. If you just wanted to have a file system (other than isofs) on a write-once *DVD*, you can do something like: dd if=/dev/null of=test.fs bs=1M seek=4480 count=0 mkfs.ext2 test.fs mkdir loopdir mount -o loop test.fs loopdir cp -a "some files & dirs" loopdir/ umount test.fs rm -r loopdir pipebench -b 50000000 < test.fs | growisofs -Z /dev/sr0=/dev/fd/0 mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
