Re: tlug: enscription thru loop device.

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:

> > I would like to enscript cd-recordable image thru loop device.
> > It seems loop device can't increase file size following the sequence
> > below:
> > 
> > $ touch cdr.img
> 
> That creates a file of the size 0. This won't simply cut it. You
> have to make a file the size of an actual CDROM. Like this:
> 
> $ 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.


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