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Thanks, I think I found the command I was looking for, its dvd+rw-mediainfo combined with isoinfo. The first command gives you the size of the media, the second one tells you how much of it you have used. Cheers. Steve. On 01/22/2011 07:35 PM, John Abreau wrote: > 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 >> > >
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