Xfburn "cannot reserve track of 117866496 bytes"

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This appears to be the entire contents of the ISO file. Can I use Xfburn or is there another app that might work?
 


The 117866496 bytes is the entire contents of the ISO file - on one track of the original DVD, I guess. Xfburn has a problem with that. I don't know how to make Xfburn work nor what alternatives I have - if any. I'm trying to back up an old game and ... I just realized that the game was on a CD not a DVD. It's working now. Sorry about that. Thanks anyway.
 
Xfburn: "cannot reserve track of 1057488896 bytes".
Trying to burn an iso file created from an original dvd using command
"sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/filename.iso". This is to back up the dvd.
 
dd does not seem to be the right tool for this. What exactly do you want to do? Make a backup copy of your game CD/DVD? Xfburn doesn't do copies, so install Brasero instead. Brasero will easily make an exact 1:1 copy of the CD for you.
Code:
sudo apt install brasero


If you want to save the contents of your game CD to your hard drive, I would use rsync instead. I just tested this method below and it worked for me:
Code:
rsync -av "/media/stan/disk label" /home/stan/Desktop/
1. rsync does not need sudo
2. Change 'stan' to your own user name in both source and destination
3. Double quotes needed on the source (as shown) only if the 'disk label' has spaces
4. Capitalization matters for both source and destination

I don't see /dev/cdrom used much anymore. It may work with rsync too, but /media/username/cd-name is probably more reliable. The CD may not have a name, it could just be a serial number, or whatever, but if it has upper and lower case letters (and spaces), you need to match them exactly.
 
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