K3b
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This page should be named k3b (all lowercase). It is K3b do to a technical limitation of Mediawiki.
K3b is a DVD and CD-ROM burning application.
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basic usage
You can launch it from a menu thingie or from the command line with:
[ggeller@ws05 ~]$ k3b
installation
CentOS 5.1
[root@arthur ~]# yum -y install k3b
Fedora Core 7
On Fedora Core 7 install with:
[root@ws05 ~]# yum -y install k3b Loading "installonlyn" plugin ...
Set the setuid bit for wodim and cdrdao:
[root@ws05 ~]# chmod +s /usr/bin/wodim [root@ws05 ~]# chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrdao
Other distributions, especially older Fedoras, may not have wodin (for which cdrecord is a front end). So you should:
[root@ws05 ~]# chmod +s /usr/bin/cdrecord
You can also install mp3 support if you really want to. See: http://fedorafaq.org
tips
warning when starting
If you see a warning when starting k3b, look at K3b/Warning
large files
larger than 2GB and UDF
When you burn an image that has files larger than 2GB, you get a warning, then k3b goes ahead and enables UDF extensions to allow for the larger files. Reading the resulting DVD works fine on recent Linux distributions.
larger than 4GB
The iso 9660 standard does not support files of 4GB or larger. You have to split the files before making an image.
large images
If data you want to write is more than 4.4G, then k3b asks for a double-layer DVD, even if your DVD writer doesn't do double layer. For normal DVD drives, the solution is to manually divide the project into two projects. Note that the DVDs always claim to 4.7G, but they count the K and/or M differently (1000 vs 1024).
setuid on wodim
In linuxmint, version 6, you get an error like "cdrecord has no permission to open the device"
The fix is to set the uid bit wodim:
$ sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/wodim
