Re: Recording a directory on a DVD through the command line

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On 1/9/06, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I would like to record an entire directory and all its subdirectories
> > (recursively) on a DVD by using the command line. Could someone here
> > please help me? That is true that I could do that, easily, with k3b,
> > but I would like to learn how to do that with the command line.
>
> It's very easy, this is how I always do it.
>
> There are two steps:
>
> 1) Create an iso image to write onto the media.
> 2) Write the actual image to media.
>
> In detail:
>
> For video dvds:
>
> mkisofs -dvd-video -o movie.iso /path/to/movie/directory
>
> For data:
>
> mkisofs -r -J -o data.iso /path/to/data/directory
>
>
>
> Then you write to cd/dvd:
>
> cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrwiter movie.iso  # or data.iso
>
> Here /dev/cdrwiter is a link to the actual writer. If you have more
> than one writer, it may be /dev/cdwriter or /dev/cdwriter1, etc.
> Don't worry, if you try one, e.g. /dev/cdwriter and it's not the one with
> the blank cd in it, it will tell you it's not the one, so nothing bad
> happens, just try another drive.
>
> For more options, do man mkisofs and man cdrecord.
>
> Another way is to write using growisofs.

Thanks, Paul and Amadeus. Actually, I prefer to use the command line
instead of programs, in this case k3b. After having inspected the man
page of growisofs, I conclude that growisofs works ONLY with DVDs. Am
I drawing the right conclusion?

Paul


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