[PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

[Rich Shepard]

I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is
insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD.
And I can copy it back when the process completes.

When I try to mount the optical drive using 'mount /mnt/cdrom' bash tells
me 'mount: /dev/sr0: can't read superblock'.

A web search for 'linux copy files to new dvd' finds many hits on how to
copy files _from_ a DVD as well as a plethora of hits on using cp. Didn't
find one on copying files _to_ a DVD.

A pointer to a tool or reference will be helpful.

Rich

[Rich Shepard]

Post by Rich Shepard
A pointer to a tool or reference will be helpful.

Forgot to mention that my reading of 'man cdrecord' suggested that I need
to specify device and track for the source rather than a path as with cp or
mv.

Rich

[Rich Shepard]

DVDs hold 4.7gb of data,

Oops! I forgot about this.

I'll use the 320G 2.5" drive.

Thanks,

Rich

[King Beowulf]

  I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is
insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD.
And I can copy it back when the process completes.
  When I try to mount the optical drive using 'mount /mnt/cdrom' bash tells
me 'mount: /dev/sr0: can't read superblock'.
  A web search for 'linux copy files to new dvd' finds many hits on how to
copy files _from_ a DVD as well as a plethora of hits on using cp. Didn't
find one on copying files _to_ a DVD.
  A pointer to a tool or reference will be helpful.

As wes mentioned, you will need something bigger. USB hard drive, SSD
or flash drives...

As for burning to optical media, what the heck: stuck in the 90s? CLI
is great...but not always. mkisofs/cdrecord are fine but why? Every
linux distro has a nice DCDR/DVDR/BDR burning that wraps the
mkisofs/cdrecord/etc to make it easier for routine use. The one I use
is K3B.

-Ed

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:35:41 -0700

Post by King Beowulf
As for burning to optical media, what the heck: stuck in the 90s? CLI
is great...but not always. mkisofs/cdrecord are fine but why? Every
linux distro has a nice DCDR/DVDR/BDR burning that wraps the
mkisofs/cdrecord/etc to make it easier for routine use. The one I use
is K3B.

+1 for K3b.