removeable disks

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Thu Feb 26 22:59:55 EST 2004


The kernel offers support for writing UDF file systems.  However the
comments said it was "very dangerous" Take that as you may:) You can
always give it a try.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:24:22PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> No, until somebody figures out how to do write support on udf on the
> fly, your directcd disks will only be read-only like Joseph
> said. Actually, I'm surprised that an apparently directcd disk mounted at
> all under udf.
> There is some info about this in the cd-writing howto in the FAQ
> section I
> believe. You would have that under
> /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/CD-Writing-HOWTO, if you've got the howtos
> package installed.
> 
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:47:46PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote:
> > Awesome!
> > I checked my fstab file and saw the cdrom entry.  It was listed as follows:
> > 
> > /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,ro  0  0
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what all of that means, but I assumed that it was using
> > iso9660 by default.  So I did try specifying udf as the file system and it
> > worked!
> > When I mounted the cd, linux gave me a message about it being read only.
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to move files to my cd?  I'm using a HP
> > cd writer.
> > 
> > Thanks for the tips.
> > -- Rob
> 
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