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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory UDF format Post 302075950 by pagink on Wednesday 7th of June 2006 06:35:55 PM
Old 06-07-2006
UDF format

Does anyone know how to format a DVD-RAM disk in udf format from a vio server. We are currently trying to backup the ios, we would love to not use a new dvd everytime. our command is as follows.

from the vio as padmin
backupios -cd /dev/cd1 -cdformat -accept

I have tried
backupios -cd /dev/cd1 -udf -accept
and it wont accept this it errors out

# lsdev -Cc cdrom
cd0 Available 03-08-00 IDE DVD-ROM Drive
cd1 Available 03-08-01 IDE DVD-RAM Drive

vio version is
$ ioslevel
1.2.1.0

os version is AIX
$ oem_setup_env
# oslevel
5.3.0.0
 

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dvdfs(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  dvdfs(4)

NAME
dvdfs - The Digital Versatile Disk File System [This feature is not supported in Tru64 UNIX Version 5.0] STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows: ISO/ITEC 13346:1995 Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) Universal Disk Format (UDF) Specification, "OSTA UDF Compliant Domain", Version 2.00. ISO 9660:1988 Information Processing-Volume and file structure of CD-ROM for information interchange. Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags. DESCRIPTION
The Digital Versatile Disk File System enables the reading of disks formatted in the Universal Disk Format (UDF). User data sectors in a DVD-ROM can contain any type of data in any format. However, for Tru64 UNIX support through the dvdfs file system, the OSTA UDF file format standard is mandatory. The file system limit for DVDFS is int cfs_cdfs_mount_limit = 512. Additionally, DVD-ROM standards require that the logical sector size and the logical block (the user data block) size be 2048 bytes. DVD support in the UDF specification includes these levels: DVD-ROM (Read-only): Supports reading of UDF-formated files from DVD-ROM disks. DVD-R (Write-once): Supports the reading of UDF-formated files from a DVD-ROM disk and supports writing, one time, UDF-formated files onto a DVD-ROM disk. DVD-RAM (Rewritable): Supports reading and writing of UDF-formated files from and to a DVD-ROM disk. At this time, the Tru64 UNIX dvdfs file system supports only the DVD-ROM (Read-only) format. See mount(8) for information about mounting and unmounting a dvdfs file system, fstab(4) for information about including dvdfs file system in a system's /etc/fstab file, and disklabel(8) for information about labeling DVD-ROM disks. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: disklabel(8), mount(8) Files: cdfs(4) fstab(4) delim off dvdfs(4)
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