Perhaphs a probelm with the Finder

Question

I was going to make a DVD this afternoon and the fiels that I needed to put on the DVD were 4.6GB, a DVD is 4.7 but the disk on the desktop says that only 4.23GB is available, why is this?
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Answer 1

Kappy,
Would the procedure below, also work with a DVD?
USE ALL 700 MBs ON CD-R
From "Macworld" Feb 2005 issue p.90 Link To Article. Scroll to the second tip on the page.
Content:
Create a new folder in the Finder
Drag everything you want to burn, up to 700 MB, into the folder.
Open Terminal and type cd ~/Desktop
Press the Enter key. This changes Terminal's active directory to your user's Desktop folder.
Type hdiutil makehybrid -o myburn.iso (There's a space after the o in iso, and myburn can be any name you choose) DON'T press Enter
Switch to the "Finder"
Drag & drop the folder you created onto the Terminal window. Terminal should fill in the full path to the folder.
Press Enter. Enter key will then execute the command.
What you have done is used the hdiutil Unix command to create a hybrid disk image named myburn.iso (you can choose whatever name you like, in place of myburn, but use iso for the extension.
You should see the message "Creating hybrid image" in your Terminal window, as well as an indication of the task's progress.
When finished, you should see a disk image called myburn.iso on your Desktop.
You can use Disk Utility to burn this image, or you can type
hdiutil burn ~/Desktop/myburn.iso in Terminal
Insert a blank CD-R when prompted, and then just wait until it's done.
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