Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Fri Aug 8 04:46:01 UTC 2014


On 08/08/14 12:09, JD wrote:
> You cannot copy TO a dvd with dd, cp, mv ....etc
> because writing to optical media requires specialized SW like
> cdrecord.

That's not 100% true.  One could be using a DVD-RAM. :-) :-)

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ df /dev/sr0
Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sr0         4402628 12310   4166648   1% /run/media/egreshko/dvdram2

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ cp nq140731.gif /run/media/egreshko/dvdram2

[egreshko at meimei ~]$ ls /run/media/egreshko/dvdram2
lost+found  nq140731.gif

BTW, I kind of hate to continue this thread since I just noticed it has been hijacked from the "cloned sd card is not booting" thread....

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