Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 18:35:41 -0700 King Beowulf dijo: >As for burning to optical media, what the heck: stuck in the 90s? CLI >is great...but not always. mkisofs/cdrecord are fine but why? Every >linux distro has a nice DCDR/DVDR/BDR burning that wraps the >mkisofs/cdrecord/etc to make it

Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-30 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/25/18 3:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is > insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD. > And I can copy it back when the process completes. > >   When I try to mount the optical drive using

Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, wes wrote: DVDs hold 4.7gb of data, Oops! I forgot about this. I'll use the 320G 2.5" drive. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-25 Thread wes
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is > insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD. > And I can copy it back when the process completes. > DVDs hold 4.7gb of data, or 8 if you

Re: [PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: A pointer to a tool or reference will be helpful. Forgot to mention that my reading of 'man cdrecord' suggested that I need to specify device and track for the source rather than a path as with cp or mv. Rich

[PLUG] Copy directory to new DVD

2018-09-25 Thread Rich Shepard
I need to make space in ~/ for a large computation (48G free space is insufficient). I can add an additional 95G by moving ~/data to a new DVD. And I can copy it back when the process completes. When I try to mount the optical drive using 'mount /mnt/cdrom' bash tells me 'mount: /dev/sr0: