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Backing Up Files to CD-R/W in FreeBSD

This is why we like following the freebsd-questions mailing list. Realy smart sounding people answer your questions about burning CDs.

The command I use for this is:
mkisofs -allow-lowercase -allow-multidot -d -L -r -o /newcd.iso path
burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank
burncd -s 4 -f /dev/acd0c data ~/newcd.iso fixate

This should do the trick. I suspect that I may have a couple of redundant options in the mkisofs line as -r might imply one or more of the others. Please read the man page for mkisofs as -L may not be appropriate.

The resulting CD should mount and look "just like" the original files on the UFS disk.
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

And you thought Windows was simple!

By Psydeshow on October 4, 2002 at 11:33pm

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