:-) It will be most appreciated if you could now do the same, for Mount Rainier formatting.

Here’s hoping the somewhat unusual syntax for embedding references works — the preview function is absent!!

cdrecord – Format cd-rw
dvd+rw-format – Format dvd-rw
mkisofs – Create an hybrid ISO9660/JOLIET/HFS filesystem with optional Rock Ridge attributes. The -dvd-video option passed to mkisofs to generate DVD-Video compliant UDF file system. The -UDF option passed to mkisofs include UDF support in the generated filesystem image.

To create a vanilla ISO-9660 filesystem image in the file cd.iso, where the directory /path/to/dir will become the root directory if the CD, call:

mkisofs -o /tmp/cd.iso /path/to/dir

To write DVD, use growisofs:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/tmp/cd.iso

To create a CD with Rock Ridge extensions of the source directory cd_dir:

mkisofs -o cd.iso -R cd_dir

To create a HFS hybrid CD with the Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions of the source directory cd_dir:

mkisofs -o cd.iso -R -J -hfs cd_dir

To create a HFS hybrid CD from the source directory cd_dir that contains Netatalk Apple/Unix files:

mkisofs -o cd.iso --netatalk cd_dir

HTH.

I think the answer may be different for CD-RWs and DVD±RWs. Please give the syntax for the above requests, for both kinds of disc? Thanks!

02.26.09 at 8:40 am
thanks but could u tell, which filesystem it uses to format dvd??

Yes, a second request for an answer to varun’s question!

Specifically, please tell us the Command Line syntax to select which UDF version will be used, plus the syntax to make sure the -RW disc is formatted as MRW (Mount Rainier) compatible.

No more obnoxious nonfunctional disks now.. yay!