I have just downloaded a Windows10 image:

$ du --bytes Win10_1709_German_x64.iso
4710961152 Win10_1709_German_x64.iso

It is slightly too large to burn it to a dvd (4.7gb) with Brasero.

Is there a way to force burning the disc, using some additional space on the disc or shrinking the iso?

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2 Answers

Use K3B as brasero doesn't appear to support overburn. Go to Settings->Advanced and check the allow overburn box as shown below:

k3b is available for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu in the Universe repository. To obtain it First enable Universe then issue the following commands in the terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install k3b

or use your favorite package manager.

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I managed to burn the iso using growisofs from the package dvd+rw-tools:

 $ growisofs -overburn --dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=Win10_1709_German_x64.iso
Executing 'builtin_dd if=Win10_1709_German_x64.iso of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0'
:-( /dev/sr0: 2298496 blocks are free, 2300274 to be written!
:-! ignoring...
/dev/sr0: "Current Write Speed" is 16.4x1352KBps. 1277952/4707319808 ( 0.0%) @0.0x, remaining 306:52 RBU 100.0% UBU 5.0%
(...) 4706074624/4707319808 (100.0%) @0.3x, remaining 0:00 RBU 14.6% UBU 99.4%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=231020h failed with SK=5h/INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE]: Invalid argument
:-( write failed: Invalid argument
/dev/sr0: flushing cache
/dev/sr0: updating RMA
/dev/sr0: closing disc
/dev/sr0: reloading tray

It will expectedly throw out some errors but installing Windows 10 from this disc was successful.

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