[clug] Blank CD-R Disc

[rcrook9190 at gmail.com]

Hi Bryan, 

CD-Rs can't be formatted to ext4. They use an ISO 9660 filesystem. But for a nice easy way to write your backups to CD I suggest installing K3B and using it to write your CDs. 

If you wish to do it from the command line the tool to use it wodim.

# genisoimage -R /path/to/backup | wodim -v - 

For example. But K3B is much simpler. 

Randall. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Kilgallin via linux <linux at lists.samba.org>
To: CLUG <linux at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:33
Subject: [clug] Blank CD-R Disc

My tower PC runs Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.

On my hard disk drive, I have a backup folder containing 586 MB data. In 
the optical drive, I have a blank CD-R Disc rated 700 MB. I have dragged 
the folder image into the CD-R window.

But I am unable to burn the CD-R! Right-clicking "Blank CD-R Disc", 
shows option "Format...". Which yields "Format Volume" window. I choose 
type "Internal disk for use with Linux systems only (Ext4)", and type a 
volume name. Leaving Erase "OFF". Then I click the "Next" tab. The 
warning lists Device "CD/DVD Drive--Atapi DVD A DH16A3L", Volume 
(blank), Location "/dev/sr0". Then I click the Format tab.

Resulting in "Error formatting volume"; "Error wiping device: Failed to 
open the device 'dev/sr0' (udisks-error-quark,0)".
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