Bug 476154 - growisofs will not allow the burning of dual-layer DVD's from an image of less than half the disc's capacity
Summary: growisofs will not allow the burning of dual-layer DVD's from an image of les...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dvd+rw-tools
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Roman Rakus
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-12 05:17 UTC by Peter Fernandes
Modified: 2014-01-13 00:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-12-21 08:42:05 UTC
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Description Peter Fernandes 2008-12-12 05:17:59 UTC
Description of problem:
growisofs will refuse to burn data to a dual-layer DVD if the data is less than 50% of the disc's capacity in size (4GiB), because the extra space on the disc is "wasted."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.0

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to write less than 4.0GiB of data to a dual-layer DVD (I used k3b as a frontend to growisofs)


  
Actual results:
growisofs complains that too much space will be wasted and exits immediately

Expected results:

The burning continues normally


Additional info:

This is really kind of absurd.  I have no other DVD's but of the dual-layered variety, so I was stopped from burning a disc because someone else decided for me that it was too wasteful.  It's almost certainly the same amount of plastic as a normal DVD...

Here's a patch for growisofs to remove the limitation:
http://repo.calcforge.org/f9/growisofs/growisofs-dvd-dl-undersized.patch

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2008-12-12 05:31:40 UTC
By the way, the patch comes from openSUSE. Pardus is also carrying it.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2008-12-17 00:40:11 UTC
Ping? There's a patch provided and it's trivial.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-12-17 12:28:08 UTC
dvd+rw-tools-7.0-12.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dvd+rw-tools-7.0-12.fc9

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2008-12-17 17:51:22 UTC
Thanks! Can you please also push this to F10?

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-12-21 08:42:02 UTC
dvd+rw-tools-7.0-12.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2008-12-21 09:22:08 UTC
What about F10?

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-01-05 14:05:19 UTC
dvd+rw-tools-7.1-2.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dvd+rw-tools-7.1-2.fc10

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-01-07 09:31:59 UTC
dvd+rw-tools-7.1-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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