Archiving CD's on linux
Published 2020-05-05, last edit 2020-08-11
1. Mounting data CD’s/DVD’s #
You might have to install one or both of these packages: cdrecord cdrkit to get the iso9660 mount type (you can check if you have support with cat /proc/filesystems | grep iso9660)
Peek at ls /dev/sr* for the devices, or lsblk for the rom type to get your mount address.
Then:
mount <dev> /path/to/mountpoint
or, more explicitly:
mount -t iso9660 <dev> /path/to/mountpoint
2. Getting the content from a Music CD/DVD #
With cdparanoia:
cd /place/to/store/tracks
cdparanoia -d <dev> -B
3. Backing up to an ISO #
dd if=<dev> of=/path/to/label.iso bs=128k
4. Mounting an ISO #
mount /path/to/image.iso /path/to/mountpoint/ -o loop