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WODIM Commands

Wodim is a console tool for writing data to optical disk media. ($man wodim)

Install wodim package (Ubuntu and Debian).
#aptitude install wodim

Shows available devices.
$wodim -devices

If we have a read-write cdrom/dvd, we may need to blank it before writing something.

Shows blank options.
$wodim dev='/dev/hda' -blank=help

Blanks fast the cdrom/dvd.
$wodim -v -eject speed=16 dev='/dev/hda' -blank=fast

Writes an iso in the cdrom/dvd.
$wodim -v -eject speed=16 dev='/dev/hda' -data Fedora-11-i686-Live.iso
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