December 10, 2008

Making and Burning DVDs with Growisofs

Using the growisofs command, you can combine the two steps of gathering files into an ISO image (mkisofs) and burning that image to DVD (cdrecord). Besides saving a step, the growisofs command also offers the advantage of keeping a session open by default until you close it, so you don’t need to do anything special for multi-burn sessions.

Here is an example of some growisofs commands for a multi-burn session:
$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /home/chris Master and burn to DVD
$ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /home/francois Add to burn
$ growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero Close burn

If you want to add options when creating the ISO image, you can simply add mkisofs options to the command line. If you want to burn a DVD image using growisofs, you can use the -dvd-compat option. Here’s an example:
$ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso Burn an ISO image to DVD

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