Burning a Blu-ray in Linux

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.

*UPDATE 2010-06-25*

It’s been awhile since I’ve tried this, but now using Fedora 13, I am able to use K3B to burn single-layer BD-RE media at 2.0x speed.  I have a Sony BDRW BWU-200S.

[cuppett@home ~]$ k3b –version

Qt: 4.6.2

KDE Development Platform: 4.4.4 (KDE 4.4.4)

K3b: 1.92.0

[cuppett@home ~]$ rpm -q dvd+rw-tools

dvd+rw-tools-7.1-4.fc12.x86_64