From 41c9e5669e19129108b8c9140468d6202ca79776 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:17:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mentioned that drives close full media automatically --- libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1 b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1 index f3b232f1..794b1e1c 100644 --- a/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1 +++ b/libisoburn/trunk/xorriso/xorriso.1 @@ -1875,6 +1875,12 @@ It might also be that your operating system has a session limit with mount. Always have a blank media ready to perform a full backup in case the update attempt fails. An overview of sessions is given by option -toc. .br +Sessions on multi-session media are separated by several MB of unused blocks. +So with small sessions the payload capacity can become substantially lower +than the overall media capacity. If the remaining space on media does not +suffice for the next gap, the drive is supposed to close the media +automatically. +.br \fBBetter do not use your youngest backup for -update_r\fR. Have at least two media which you use alternatingly. So only older backups get endangered by the new write operation, while the newest backup is