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52 Chapter 4. Diskettes and CD-ROMs

Option Function

-o Specify an output ﬁlename of the ISO image

-J Generate Joliet naming records; useful if the CD will be used in

Windows environments

-R Generate Rock Ridge (RR) naming records to preserve ﬁlename

length and casing, especially for UNIX/Linux environments

-A Set an Application ID — a text string that will be written into the

volume header of the image that can be useful to determine what

applications are on the CD

-V Set a Volume ID — a name that will be assigned to it if the image

is burned and the disc is mounted in Solaris and Windows

environments

-v Set verbose execution, which is useful for viewing the status of

the image as it is being made.

-x Exclude any directory immediately following this option; this

option can be repeated (for example, ... -x /home/joe/trash -x

/home/joe/delete ...)

Table 4-1. mkisofs Options

4.3.2.2. Using cdrecord

The cdrecord utility writes audio, data, and mixed-mode (a combination of audio, video, and/or data)

CD-ROMs using options to conﬁgure several aspects of the write process, including speed, device,

and data settings.

To use cdrecord, you must ﬁrst establish the device address of your CD-R(W) device by running the

following command as root at a shell prompt:

cdrecord -scanbus

This command will show all CD-R(W) devices on your computer. Remember the device address of

the device you will use to write your CD. The following is an example output from running cdrecord

-scanbus.

Using libscg version ’schily-0.1’

scsibus0:

0,0,0 0) *

0,1,0 1) *

0,2,0 2) *

0,3,0 3) ’HP ’ ’CD-Writer+ 9200 ’ ’1.0c’ Removable CD-ROM

0,4,0 4) *

0,5,0 5) *

0,6,0 6) *

0,7,0 7) *

To write the backup ﬁle image created with mkisofs in the previous section, switch to root user and

type the following at a shell prompt:

cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,3,0 backup.iso