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+ | '''How to Determine What Your CD or DVD Drive Uses for the Mount Point''' | ||
+ | * Use the "eject" command to open the drive, and then use the "dmesg" command to view kernel messages, the last of which should be something like this: | ||
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+ | [50208.534770] SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts | ||
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+ | In the above example, the CD/DVD burner is device sr0, so the mount point of it is /mnt/sr0. | ||
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'''Create ISO Image From Any Disk or File Structure''' | '''Create ISO Image From Any Disk or File Structure''' |
Revision as of 20:05, 2 July 2015
ISO Image Command Line Examples
How to Determine What Your CD or DVD Drive Uses for the Mount Point
- Use the "eject" command to open the drive, and then use the "dmesg" command to view kernel messages, the last of which should be something like this:
[50208.534770] SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts
In the above example, the CD/DVD burner is device sr0, so the mount point of it is /mnt/sr0.
Create ISO Image From Any Disk or File Structure
- If it is a disk you are copying to an ISO image, first un-mount it, using the umount command:
(Only one of the below commands are required, depending on your system and how it automatically mounts disks)
umount /mnt/cdrom OR umount /mnt/sdd OR umount /mnt/sr0 OR umount /run/media/username/disk_name
- Use the dd command to create an exact image of the disk or file system:
(Again, use the correct mounting point for your particular Linux system)
In all of these examples using the dd command, the tags if= and of= stand for "InputFile"= and "OutputFile"=
dd if=/dev/sr0 of=ISO_Image_File_Name.iso OR dd if=/directory_structure_name of=ISO_Image_File_Name.iso
- A really nice way of creating an ISO image using the dd command along with some other command line arguments,
to create a nice ncurses based status indicator while it creates the image, allowing you to monitor the progress of ISO image creation:
(pv -n /dev/sr0 | dd of=MP3s_G_through_J-3.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc,noerror) 2>&1 | dialog --gauge "Creating ISO Image... Please stand by..." 10 70 0
Create ISO Image from Mounted CD or DVD:
- In the example below:
- Replace "IMAGE_NAME.ISO" with what you want to name the ISO image file.
- Replace "/run/media/dir_disk_mounted_on/" with the entire path that the disk is mounted on.
- This exact same command can also be used to create an ISO image containing any mounted directory tree.
- Switches used in below example: -v = verbose output, -J and -R = Juliet & RockRidge extensions included for Windows compatibility.
genisoimage -o IMAGE_NAME.ISO -v -J -R /run/media/dir_disk_mounted_on/