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[one-liner]: Determining a CD/DVD Drive’s Write Speed Capabilities under Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

Background

Here’s a quick primer on how to determine the capabilities of a CD/DVD drive you may have on your Linux laptop or desktop using the little known command wodim. In truth, wodim is actually the app behind cdrecord & dvdrecord, which are little more than aliases.

NOTE: it’s available as wodim-1.1.11-3.fc14.x86_64 in the default Fedora 14 [...] Continue reading

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[one-liner]: Archving a Directory Tree into a CD or DVD via the Command Line Using mkisofs on Fedora 14 & CentOS 5

Background

Recently I was putting together a script to build an archive of all the various files that a project was comprised from. One of the final tasks was to burn the entire lot of files to a CD or DVD, so I took the opportunity to figure out how to do this from the command [...] Continue reading

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