Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:40:36 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> To: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Making Data CDs Message-ID: <200304181040.36375.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200304181023.54416.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> References: <3E9F3E07.50807@trini0.org> <200304181023.54416.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:23, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:21, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > Just getting into CD Burning with FreeBSD. > > I have a directory of files with a total size of 540M (according to w= 2k). > > I made an iso of the directory like -> > > mkisofs -o files.iso ~/temp/files > > This leaves a number of questions in my mind: > If w2k can report the total size then is ~/temp/files on an NTFS or FAT > file system or perhaps a symbolic link thereto? Or is it a copy of a w2= k > tree? What size does: > du -k ~/temp/files > report? > What size does 'ls -l' report for files.iso? > Are any of the files w2k links/short-cuts? > > > Then I used burncd like -> > > burncd -v -s max -f /dev/acd1 data ~/temp/files.iso fixate Conventionally the device should be /dev/acd1c Most systems don't have acd0 or acd1 as /dev entries. > > > > Now, Im able to mount the CD in FreeBSD, and in w2k, and they seem > > similar, but the file sizes were way off. > > According to w2k, the total file usage was 540M while the CD is only = 40M. > > Did I use the correct steps to burn this CD?? Malcolm Kay
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