[SLL] How burn 2g+ file to DVD?

Russell Evans russell-evans at qwest.net
Sun Jan 21 20:08:58 PST 2007


On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:58:25 -0800
"Tim Maher" <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:

>
> nice dd if=/dev/zero of=$image bs=1024k count=$blocks

If you used dd_rescue http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
instead of dd, you could use sparse files. Assuming you don't fill all
4.7GB on all the disks, this might save you time and hard drive space.

Thank you
Russell





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