Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:58:35 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Ronj_clark@fellowshipchurch.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: burncd questions Message-ID: <200110190058.f9J0wZw96074@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Ronnie Clark " <Ronj_clark@fellowshipchurch.com> of "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:45:26 EDT." <200110181245.AA90964180@mail.fellowshipchurch.com>
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"Ronnie Clark " writes: > Ok first off, thank you to Nils and Eric for showing me burncd > instead of xcdroast. > > Now, I looked at the man pages for burncd and it looks straight > forward enough. So I erased a CD-RW I have and then tried to burn > a file with the following command: > burncd -f /dev/acd1c data stacys_pics.tar.gz fixate > > Everything seemed to work fine, but after it had bured, I tried to > mount the newly burned CD-RW, and I get the following message: > cd 9660: /dev/acd1c: Invalid argument > > Does anyone have any idea? Don't mount it. Read it directly with tar. After all you wrote a tar archive to the disk not a filesystem (as has already been pointed out). While its probably not what you intended to do, its what you told the computer to do. Try "tar -tvzf /dev/acd1c" and see what happens. It should work without mounting the CD. Another thing: jpeg and gif pictures don't compress as they are already compressed. Gzip'ing the tar archive at best will make it only a bit bigger, not smaller. However, gzip adds another layer of validation if you are concerned about the archive dropping a bit sometime in the future. While gzip will shout loud and clear that the archive is broken it may be impossible to recover. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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