Re: How much data can fit on a 4.7 Gb DVD ?

B Thomas wrote:
Hi,

I was trying to buring 4.6 Gigs of data (estimated by "du -hsc")
onto a 4.7 Gb DVD-R (using growisofs). However growisofs does
not burn and complains that there is not enough space. Could you
kindly explain how can one estimate how much data can be fit onto
these discs, in view of the above.

thanking you
b thomas


A DVD holds 4.7GB of data. You are trying to fit over 4.9GB of data!

4.9GB = 4.6GiB


http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

poly-p man
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