Re: How to interrogate optical discs

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:07:13 -0500
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

If there really is overhead and other data being added, we'd like to
know as accurately as possible the size of that added amount.

I think it depends entirely on how many directory entries it
needs to make, etc. I don't think there is any way to predict
it. I suspect if you want to minimize ununsed space on a DVD
you may have to build an image you think will fit, discover it
is too big, remove a file and try again till it fits.

Maybe the iso image tools should have an option to do everything
except actually write the data to the image so you can iterate
without taking up as much time (maybe they do have such an
option already - I haven't looked :-).

I did some searching but found no definitive answer. One thing that
could improve the image size estimation is to round up the size of
each file to a multiple of 2k. This still will not take into account
file system metadata overhead but it will get us closer and should be
pretty easy to implement (if it's not already, I'll check the code).

Richard
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