initializing a blank DVD+R disk?

[Bill Davidsen]

Stuart McGraw wrote:
> I am trying to setup backup software (Bacula) on my home
> network and ran into a real dumb newbie DVD question I haven't
> been able to google an answer to (at least an answer I could 
> understand) since I have never used writable DVDs before.
> 
> How does one write a iso filesystem onto a blank DVD+R disk 
> without writing any files, and leaving the DVD writable (i.e,
> not finalized if that this the right term)?  The growisofs 
> and mkisofs man pages are mostly greek to me.  Is there a 
> magic cookbook incantation I can use until I can figure 
> out all the techy details?

Growisofs with -Z option writes the first session, with -M writes the rest of 
the sessions. My feeling is that writing an empty filesystem on a media buys 
nothing and that's why there's no neat command to do it. If you don't want to 
write data then why write anything?

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