I’ve had a blu-ray burner in my Linux system for quite a while. Since about Fedora 8, I’ve been using commands to burn backups onto single-layer BD-RE media. I gleaned those commands out of a posting about dvd+/-rw tools (google cache). Here are the basics…
Ad-Hoc Burning
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /path/to/files
- later -
growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files
- to finalize -
growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero
Writing an ISO
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=/path/image.iso
Erase the Disk
growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero
Format
dvd+rw-format -ssa=1G /dev/dvd
I’ve recently been trying to do some new things and I thought I would post that as of Fedora 11, Brasero can recognize and write files to my BD-RE media and also erase the disk to do it again. K3b is still at 1.0.5 (not a KDE 4 compatible version) on Fedora and does not recognize the disk correctly for type and capacity, nor does it allow burning.
My recent searches pull up the same results from 2007 and 2008 as before where people were unsure, etc. This is the current state of my world though.