Re: DVD-RAM?!?!?!?

Thomas Richter staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Olindo Pindaro schrieb:
I installed Ubuntu Gutsy. I correctly read my DVD_RAM but I cannot write
it in packet-writing mode (drag & drop). It is mounted read-only.
Which [file] system do you use on the DVD-RAM? The ISO system used for
-RW and -R is "read only" and cannot be mounted R/W.

Actually, ISO9660 is append-only. You can't mount it rw, but you can
append additional stuff to an existing CD using appropriate mkisofs and
cdrecord options (or growisofs -M for DVDs.) In general, you wouldn't
use ISO9660 on a DVD-RAM medium.

There is a UDF [file] system which is intended for DVD-RAMs and packet
writing, but I cannot recommend the Linux implementation. It does
strange things when overwriting existing files.

Interesting, I hadn't heard of that. Then again, 4G isn't as much data
as it used to be, so I tend to save things until I have that much data
and just burn a single-session DVD+R.

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