Re: Estimating left space on a CD...

From: Lewi Kristianto (ichtus_lewi_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:09:27 -0700 (PDT)
To: Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    --- Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano@iccu.sbn.it> wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm writing a BASH script to do simple backups on a
    > CD-RW, but I can't
    > find a way to know how much space is left on the
    > medium.
    >
    > A trivial solution could be mounting the medium and
    > use "du -sk" on it,
    > but the disadvantage of this method is that the
    > result would just be the
    > total length of the original files, while the ISO
    > images are usually
    > slightly longer. The result is an underestimated
    > value.
    >
    just an idea, while backing up files to cd
    read manual mkisofs in "--print-size" section

    > Any hints?
    >
    > Best regards.
    >
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