Re: [CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS

At Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:49:03 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook". Unfortunately, some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work the same way on a standard CentOS 5 install.

1. Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file?

Yes and no. Depends on the permissions of the recording device's /dev/ file. Probably recomended that you run as root. This also allows for near real time scheduling.

2. How do I specify a device? 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't seem to work.

Say my CD burner is /dev/hdc, would 'cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc' be the correct way to address it?

Cheers,

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