| Mental Patient on Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:24:16 -0500 |
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On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 16:20, Doug Crompton wrote: > Yes a slow Sunday here too... > > Another thing.... the blanket statement that CD's cannot contain blank > space is not true. CDRW's under direct CD in Win enviroments is treated > like a hard drive. Files are randomly added, erased, modified. Also since > you can only write a CDRW 999 times there are optimizations to spread the > writes over the surface, thus reducing the number of write to any one > area. So at least in the case of a CDRW, created in Windows, dd would copy > blank space, assuming it does a disk image. Thats a packet written (ufs) file system. I still wish they worked under linux properly. I suppose I should be happy I can even read them..... -- Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com) I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it. --Steven Wright GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental.asc Attachment:
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