growisofs command examples

growisofs – combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program.

Actual device names vary from one operating system to another. We use /dev/dvd as a collective name or as symbolic link to the actual device if you wish. Under Linux it will most likely be an ide-scsi device such as “/dev/sr0.”

Under NetBSD/OpenBSD it has to be a character SCSI CD-ROM device such as “/dev/rcd0c.” Under Solaris it also has to be a character SCSI/ATAPI CD-ROM device, e.g. “/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2” or “/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0.” And likewise in HP-UX, IRIX and Mac OS X…

To master and burn an ISO9660 volume with Joliet and Rock-Ridge extensions on a DVD or Blu-ray Disc:

growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -R -J /some/files

To append more data to same media:

growisofs -M /dev/dvd -R -J /more/files

Make sure to use the same options for both initial burning and when appending data.

To finalize the multisession DVD maintaining maximum compatibility:

growisofs -M /dev/dvd=/dev/zero

To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

where image.iso represents an arbitrary object in the filesystem, such as file, named pipe or device entry. Nothing is growing here and command name is not intuitive in this context.