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Manpages GROWISOFSSection: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1m)Updated: 3 August 2003 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEgrowisofs - combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program.SYNOPSISgrowisofs [-dry-run] [-dvd-compat] [-overburn] [-speed=1] -[Z|M] /dev/dvd <mkisofs-options>DESCRIPTIONgrowisofs was originally designed as a frontend to mkisofs to facilitate appending of data to ISO9660 volumes residing on random-access media such as DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, plain files, hard disk partitions. In the course of development general purpose DVD recording support was implemented, and as of now growisofs supports not only random-access media, but even mastering of multi-session DVD media such as DVD+R and DVD-R/-RW. In addition growisofs supports first-/single-session recording of arbitrary pre-mastered image (formatted as UDF, ISO9660 or any other file system, if formatted at all) to all supported DVD media types.OPTIONS
DIFFERENCES WITH RUNNING MKISOFS DIRECTLYWhen using growisofs you may not use the -o option for an output file. growisofs dumps the image directly to the media; You don't have to specify the -C option to create a higher level session on a multi session disk, growisofs will construct one for you; Otherwise everything that applies to [multi-session] mastering with mkisofs applies to growisofs as well. growisofs needs at least mkisofs version 1.14, version 2.0 is required for multi-session write-once recordings.EXAMPLESActual device names vary from one operating system to another. We use /dev/dvd as a collective name or as symbolic link to the actual device if you wish. Under Linux it will most likely be an ide-scsi device such as "/dev/scd0." Under NetBSD/OpenBSD it has be a character SCSI CD-ROM device such as "/dev/rcd0c." Under Solaris it also has to be a character SCSI/ATAPI CD-ROM device, e.g. "/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2" or "/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0." And so has to under HP-UX...To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge extensions on a DVD:
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files To append more data to same DVD:
Make sure to use the same options for both inital burning and following sessions. To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and command name is not intuitive in this context. NOTESIf the media already carries isofs and growisofs is invoked with -Z option non-interactively, e.g. through cron, it shall fail with "FATAL: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!" Note that only ISO9660 is recognized, you can perfectly zap e.g. an UDF filesystem non-interactively."Overburn" protection in pre-mastered image context works only with plain files and ISO9660 formatted volumes. E.g. [given that /dev/root is an ext2 formatted file system larger than 4.7GB] /dev/dvd=/dev/root is bound to produce corrupted recording. Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blanking. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'. Playback of re-writable DVD media, both DVD+RW and DVD-RW, might be limited in legacy DVD-ROM/-Video units. In most cases this is due to lower reflectivity of such media. Even though growisofs supports it, playback of multi-session write-once DVD might be limited to the first session for two reasons:
The above is not applicable to DVD+RW or DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite, as volumes are grown within a single session. SEE ALSOMost up-to-date information on dvd+rw-tools is available at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/.The manpage for mkisofs. AUTHORSAndy Polyakov <appro@fy.chalmers.se> stands for programming and on-line information.This manpage is currently maintained by Huub Reuver <h_reuver@mantell.xs4all.nl>. LICENSEgrowisofs is distributed under GNU GPL.
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