
4 EFS Systems on a Linux Base: Additional Topics
To create a CD, in a very simple implementation, we simply move all the files we want to
include on the output CD into the same directory, such as /tmp/burn, and proceed as follows:
# su (Need to be root)
# cdrecord -scanbus (Do we see the CD-RW unit?)
# mkdir /tmp/burn
# cp /fake/222222 /tmp/burn/222222 (Move desired files to this directory)
# cp .......... /tmp/burn....... (Copy the files we need)
# ls -al /tmp/burn/* (Verify the desired files are present)
# mkisofs -R /tmp/burn/* | cdrecord -v fs=6m dev=0,0 -
We must be root to use these commands. The cdrecord -scanbus looks for SCSI or
pseudo-