Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

drutil

Synopsis

drutil help [subcommand]
drutil { version | list | poll }
drutil { info | discinfo | trackinfo | status | cdtext | subchannel | eject 
} [-drive drive_spec]
drutil { erase | bulkerase } { full | quick } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil tray { eject | open | close } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil getconfig { current | supported } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil filename filename
drutil dumpiso device block_num [format]

Manages disk drives that can write to optical media, using the Disc Recording framework.

Options

bulkerase

Erase an optical disk as the erase subcommand, then prompt for another disk to erase. This repeats until the process is killed.

cdtext

Display CD-Text data contained on an audio CD.

discinfo

Print information about the optical disk in the drive to standard output.

dumpiso

Dump ISO-9660 and Joliet formatting data from an optical disk. The device argument is a disk device filename, such as /dev/disk1. The block_num argument specifies the block to dump. The format argument is one of None, Boot, Dir, HFSPlusVH, LPath, MPath, PVD, SVD, VDST, or VPD.

eject

Unmount and eject an optical disk. Same as drutil tray eject.

erase

Erase a rewritable optical disk and eject it. A quick erasure removes only formatting information so that the disk appears to be blank; a full erasure overwrites the entire disk but takes considerably longer.

filename

Show how the given filename is converted when burning to an optical disk, given the support available with different formats, including ...