Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Burning an ISO from the command line

The cdrecord command burns an ISO file to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.

To burn the image to the CD-ROM, run the following command:

    # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom image.iso

Useful options include the following:

• Specify the burning speed with the -speed option:

      -speed SPEED 

Consider this example:

      # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom image.iso -speed 8

Here, 8 is the speed specified as 8x.

• A CD-ROM can be burned in multi-sessions such that we can burn data multiple times on a disk. Multisession burning can be done with the -multi option:

      # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom image.iso -multi