Formatting CDs
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 22:18:42 UTC 2007
Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> Format allows you to use the CD-RW disk as if it was a hard disk or a
>>>> memory stick to copy files on to it with the cp command or erase using
>>>> the rm command.
>>> I don't think you can do that with CD's.
>> Sure you can. It's usually referred to ask "Packet Writing". There's an
>> old Sourceforge page for a project to bring support to Linux
>> (http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/). I don't know what the current status
>> is, though.
> Formatting and Packet Writing are not the same thing .
On a CDRW, it is packet writing and the UDF filesystem that lets you
write and erase files incrementally - and I don't think it is supported
on linux. The iso filesystem has to be written all at once along with
the data so formatting doesn't really happen as a separate step. You
can write multiple sessions that appear as separate filesystems though.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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