Re: tlug: enscription thru loop device.

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Kei Furuuchi wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
>  
>  > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=cdr.img bs=1024 count=650000
>  > > 
>  > > ....well, I don't know what the size of a CDROM exactly is. Put
>  > > into count the correct number. This is raw size - unformatted.
>  > 
>  > It's 650 * 1024 = 665600 1k blocks.
> 
> My Mitsubishi media have 335100(sectors) x 2048(byte/sector) =
> 686,284,800 byte. But, it / 4 (byte/sample) / 44100 (sample/sec) / 60
> (sec/min) is 64.842 which does not add up to 74 min.

well, when I make CD images here, which I do often, as long as the 'du -s'
on the .img file reports <= 665600 blocks, it fits on the CD.  More than
that, and it doesn't fit :)

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