
But keep in mind that USB devices are assigned entries in /dev as they are connected to the system. If the camera is the only USB storage device that you ever connect to your system, this is safe. dev/sda1 on /mnt/camera type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev) In the example below, images are copied from a USB camera to the hard disk: robin:~> mount /mnt/camera robin:~> mount | grep camera After the mount procedure, they are accessed as normal directories, so you can use the standard commands for manipulating files. These devices are usually mounted into the file system. Backups on/from jazz drives, USB devices and other removables Both the KDE and Gnome desktop managers have facilities to make your own CDs.ĩ.2.3.

One of the popular ones is xcdroast, which is freely available from the X-CD-Roast web site and is included on most systems and in the GNU directory. There are some graphical tools available to make it easier on you. Upon finishing the job, you will get a confirmation message: Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 341540864/341540864

Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds.ĭepending on your CD-writer, you now have the time to smoke^H^H^H^H^H eat a healthy piece of fruit and/or get a cup of coffee. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). After that, the CD can be created using the cdrecord tool with appropriate options: recordables] cdrecord -dev 0,0,0 -speed=8 cd.isoĬdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) (C) 1995-2001 Joerg Schilling The -J and -r options are used to make the CD-ROM mountable on different systems, see the man pages for more. ģ25M recordables] mkisofs -J -r -o cd.iso. įilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on Check with df that enough disk space is available, because a new file about the same size as the entire current directory will be created: recordables] df -h. Use the mkisofs command to do this in the directory containing the files you want to backup.

Your data will need to be formatted first. On some systems users are allowed to use the CD-writer device.
