On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Rohit Ramesh wrote:

Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe sam_buddhe@yahoo.com wrote ...

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IIRC, xcdroast can creat multi-session CD's; it even tells you how much space will be wasted per session and all that. Only thing is that the interface to do that isn't provided up front; you have to click on a couple of tabs to reach there.

I havent been able to figure out why space is wasted while writing a cd .... shouldn't you be able to burn close 650 or 700 mb ?? ( depending on 74 or 80 minute cds )

Software like Nero Burning ROM report the extra space as " file system overhead " .... what does that mean ?

This is a limitation of the iso9660 format. Every time you add to a multisession CD, it will take up a *minimum* of something like ~20 mb or so to add whatever files you are trying to write to the CD, even if the files themselves are only a few kb. Plus, it takes something like 11 mb or so to write a new toc (table of contents). It's all in the docs. :)

hth,

regards,

Sharukh.