[Gllug] CD copying

[ab]

I wonder if dd if=cdrom will handle multisession disks ?
I was trying to copy some recently and ran into trouble.
Trying to take backup copies of legal software  - no piracy here mate!

/Anthony/

will wrote:

> tet at accucard.com wrote:
>
> >>I can take an exact copy of the cd using dd.
> >>
> >>Is it possible to then burn a cd from the resulting image.
> >>
> >
> > Yep, I do it all the time:
> >
> >       dd if=/dev/scd0 of=/stuff/cdimage.iso
> >       cdrecord -v /stuff/cdimage.iso
> >
> > You can mount the image as a loopback filesystem to check that it's
> > OK before burning it to CD if you wish.
>
> I just mounted a CDROM image using the following:
>
> mount -o loop ./image ./directory
>
> and cd'ed to it and there were loads of files there.  I don't know why
> but this I find this very cool. :-)  I am going to create images of all
> my cd's now before the novelty wears off.
>
> Will.
>
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