Writing on CD or DVD

[rohit]

Hi,

How can we select and write the files/folders on CD or DVD?

--Rohit

[virtuq]

Rohit,

The CD and DVD are local resources on the computer. Typically they are owned by whosoever owns the console. You can check the permissions using ls -ld /dev/cdrom, ls -ld /dev/dvdwriter etc. If you do a remote logon to a machine you of course cannot write to the local optical drives of that machine until and unless you are root or are granted permission to do so.

In case you have the necessary permissions, you can use the programs mkisofs alongwith cdrecord from the command line or one of the several gui programs such as xcdroast. Do note that the support for Blue-Ray drives in Linux is still flaky due to the several licensing issues.

Anup

[rohit]

Thanks Anup