UDF Cds

[rquin66]

Hi,

 

does anybody know how can I write-read a CDRW in UDF format? That is, to use it as a big diskette, which is what i do in Windoze.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Rafa

[theYinYeti]

This kind of usage of CDRWs is unfortunately very experimental in Linux, so it is most probably disabled in Mandrake. Of course, you can compile your own kernel, but is it worth it?

 

Yves.

[mtweidmann]

I'd avoid if you can. Its a bit like NTFS support, it works, sort of.

[Glitz]

There's very little in the way of UDF support in the current kernel but I believe the 2.5.x development kernel has UDF support.

 

Reading a UDF CDRW (ie. written by direct CD on a windows machine) can be done very easily. You can mount the CD manually:

 

mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

 

or you can disable supermount, edit fstab, and put a mounting icon on your desktop.

 

Disable supermount:

 

supermount -i disable

 

Reboot so that supermount is actually disabled.

 

Edit your fstab entry for the CDRW to look something like this:

 

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,ro,noauto 0 0

 

The important modifications are the udf,iso9660 filesystem specification (in that order or else you might mount the iso9660 bridging track instead of the udf track), and the removal of the codepage= specification (which causes automatic detection of udf tracks to fail on some systems).

 

Finally add a convenient mounting icon on your desktop.

 

Glitz.