Re: cdrecord question

["Cory T. Echols" <coryechols@yahoo.com>]

On 05/03, Andrew Kae wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Matsushita (Panasonic) 7582 IDE cdr.  I've read
> through the CD-Writing Howto but I am still confused about
> one thing.
> 
> Is it possible to write files and directories to a cd without making
> an image first?  

    It can be done, I've never tried it, so I don't know if it's really
a good idea or not.  According to the CD-Writing howto, you can pipe
the output of mkisofs to cdrecord, like so:

shell> IMG_SIZE=`mkisofs -R -q -print-size private_collection/  2>&1 \ 
       | sed -e "s/.* = //"` 
shell> echo $IMG_SIZE shell> [ "0$IMG_SIZE" -ne 0 ] \
       && mkisofs -r private_collection/  \ 
       |cdrecord  speed=2  dev=0,6,0  
       tsize=${IMG_SIZE}s  -data -
  #Don't forget the s --^        ^-- read data from STDIN

  The success of this depends greatly on the speed of your machine.  You
definitely won't want to run any hard-disk intensive process while this
is going on.

  Hope this helps.

-- 
Cory T. Echols
coryechols@yahoo.com