Formatting CDs

Matt Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Wed Jun 27 01:15:43 UTC 2007


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On 26-Jun-2007, at 20:43 , Aaron Konstam wrote:

>
> Well its discouraging since I expalined it several times. I want to do
> to the CD-RW the same thing you do when you formatted a floppy.  
> Once it
> is formatted you could mount it and use it like you use a hard drive.
> Copy files to it using cp, remove files from it using rm, etc.

Sorry, Aaron, but CDs (even CDRWs) don't work that way.  You can  
create an image, and burn that image to a CD, and then (if you have a  
CDRW) erase that image and write a new one, but they're not a random- 
write device like floppies and hard disks.

There are some software packages that will let you continuously  
append to a CDRW without closing the write session, but I don't  
expect you'd be able to do that using standard command line tools.


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