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
