DVD+RW burns 3GB but only reads back as 13MB

From: Peter Kiem (zordah_at_zordah.net)
Date: 12/28/03

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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:39:41 +1000

    Hi,

    Does anyone have any experience with DVD+RW burning? I am trying to
    do it from command line (rather than use something like k3b) as I am
    trying to work this into my backup scripts.

    I used to use a CD-RW drive for doing backups but just replaced the
    drive with a DVD+RW drive to cut down on the number of discs I have to
    write.

    No matter what I did I couldn't get dvdrecord working as a replacement
    for cdrecord. Errors ranged from "cannot burn > 100 mins" to "Wrong
    media".

    After a bit of reading I found the growisofs command which seemed to
    work fine. This is the command I gave to burn a 3GB tar file to the
    DVD+RW

    growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrom holding.tar

    Now growisofs SAID it wrote the full 3GB and looking at the disc it
    certainly has used most of the area as you can see where it has written
    the data.

    But when I try to read the disc in either of 2 DVD drives I have on the
    system I can only see a 13MB file!

    Any ideas cause this has got me stumped :( 

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