[mdlug] What *not* to do with k9copy

[Ingles, Raymond]

 I've found k9copy to be quite useful in backing up my video DVDs to
blank recordable DVDs. It handles shrinking the video so it fits on a
standard single-layer 4.3GB DVD and so forth. So far the difference in
video quality has been unnoticeable, and you can reduce that even further
by having it dump all the other cruft on the DVD except the movie itself,
freeing up room.

 A couple of quirks, though. It doesn't seem to work terribly well if
another user is logged in; I think the desktops fight over who gets to
mount the DVD. And a couple nights ago I was running low on disk space,
and thought, "Hey, I can put it on my Windows/Linux shared partition!"

 Bad idea. It's FAT32, of course, so both OS's can write to it. But that
filesystem has a 2GB filesize limit. When I rebooted the system, it went
into a *very* lengthy fsck of that partition. I booted off CD and
commented that partition out of the fstab, then I could boot normally.
I ran the fsck overnight - I don't know exactly how long it took, but it
was more than two hours.

 Anyway, I'm going to be doing some repartitioning soon...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                               (313) 227-2317

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