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One thing to consider is that "official 4.7Gigs" actually means 4,700,000,000 bytes, which translates to 4.4 GB ("GiB" for the anally retentive). On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Stephen Adler <adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org> wrote: > Hi Blu'ers... > > I'm writing some scripts to do backups of data for my job. Does anyone > know how to query a DVD-RW disk to find out how much free space is on > it? I guess one could mount it, get the used space and subtract that > from the official 4.7Gigs of DVD capacity, but it would be nice to be > able to do some kind of direct query. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers. Steve. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr-iMZfmuK6BGBxLiRVyXs8+g at public.gmane.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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