CD burning

This page describes how to burn a CD-rom in Linux. For instructions on how to connect a CD/DVD burner to your system please check my storage page about CD-rom burners

To burn a CD you have to be root, or use sudo. You can either choose to create a iso file first, or burn on the fly. To create a iso to burn later, use mkisofs:

mkisofs -o home-enrique.iso -R -joliet-long -graft-points "/=/home/enrique"

The options explained:

• -o home-enrique.iso : is the output file
• -R : is Rock Ridge records
• -joliet-long is a non standart that enables you to have files with a filename up to 103 Unicode characters (man mkisofs for more info).
• -graft-points maps a directory to another, by using "/=/home/enrique" I get the contents of /home/enrique in the / of the CD.

To burn a CD on the fly use the two following commands:

mkisofs -R -joliet-long -graft-points "/=/home/enrique" | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 --eject -v speed=4 -

To find dev, run cdrecord -scanbus. Remember to add a - to the cdrecord command so it will read from stdin.

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