Aaron Konstam wrote:
Formatting and Packet Writing are not the same thing .Format allows you to use the CD-RW disk as if it was a hard disk or a memory stick to copy files on to it with the cp command or erase using the rm command.I don't think you can do that with CD's.Sure you can. It's usually referred to ask "Packet Writing". There's an old Sourceforge page for a project to bring support to Linux (http://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/). I don't know what the current status is, though.
On a CDRW, it is packet writing and the UDF filesystem that lets you write and erase files incrementally - and I don't think it is supported on linux. The iso filesystem has to be written all at once along with the data so formatting doesn't really happen as a separate step. You can write multiple sessions that appear as separate filesystems though.
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