On May 3, 2000 at 23:56, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>cause it's in your fstab. cdroms use an iso9660 file system (not windows
>or unix or mac specific). The reason being that unlike hard disks and
>floppies that have tracks and sectors, a cdrom is just one long track
>spiralling in from the outside in (or maybe the other way round). This is
>also the reason that you've got to burn an entire cd at one go.
I think it's from the inside out. See the half-burnt CDs, the burnt part
is on the inside. With modern burners and readers you can create a
multi-session disk, with many tracks.
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