Universal Disk Format (UDF)
Questions tagged [udf]
21 questions
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Can and should UDF be used as a hard drive format?
Several time recently I've seen UDF suggested as the solution to a cross platform format for a drive used on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP and above.
I've searched here and not found the same suggestion (most are suggesting ntfs-3g which seems to…
dlamblin
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How to open UDF Volume
I have a DVD which I can open in Windows, but in my Ubuntu 12.04 installation I cannot any more. I receive this error:
Unable to mount UDF Volume
Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs…
M N
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Is there a way to edit a UDF disk image file/ISO image?
I have an ISO image with a UDF filesystem and a boot sector and I need to add a file to it. When I do
sudo mount -o loop,rw /tmp/file.iso /tmp/dir
I get
mount: block device /tmp/file.iso is write-protected, mounting read-only
This happens even if…
andlabs
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Problem mounting old UDF cds
My father passed away last month, and I'm trying to recover some photos from some old cd-r's he left in his office. They appear to have been written using Roxio Easy CD-Creator. It burns both a udf and iso9660 portion of the disk.
I'm running the…
kholli
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Fast way to burn DVD-R (UDF)?
We could create ISO-9660 DVDs by piping mkisofs into cdrecord.
For UDF, the procedure seems to be convoluted and slow. It creates a temporary blank 4GB file, then writes data into it, and only then burns it.
Is there a fast way to burn data DVD-Rs…
Oleg2718281828
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Prevent Windows 10 from formatting ext4 partition on pendrive
I used to create two partitions on pendrives that would be used either on Windows or GNU/Linux.
The first partition I'd format with ntfs, the second one with ext4. This way Windows would not see the second partition and would not ask to format when…
Joe
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fsck tool for UDF filesysyem in 14.04
Is there a tool to make fsck check an UDF file system on portable hard drive? I have the udftools package installed but there is no tool to check the UDF filesystem in it.
user260225
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Creating a pure UDF iso
I need to create ISO files that use UDF and only UDF, no ISO9660 or Joliet. I was using genisoimage and Xfburn, but I discovered that the presence of a ISO9660 filesystem in the ISO files was causing problems during situations when users wanted to…
user967778
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UDF Partition reported full when it is not
I was using these instructions to setup an external hard disk with udf. I have been able to setup a multi-partition system using those instructions, but I seem to have hit a wall, where the partition is reported as full while writing to the disk.…
Nemo
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external hard drive type is unknown in ubuntu
I plugged my western digital elements 2tb external hdd into ubuntu machine.
Somehow my laptop hard drive got corrupted, and as soon as I connected my external drive it showed me as "CD_ROM"
Then I run a command
fsck -nf /dev/sda1
terminal out…
BomberMan
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Can't read superblock- UDF DVD
I'm having trouble mounting my UDF-formated DVD. It used to work when mounted as a read-only device but suddenly one day the system was unable to mount the DVD.
I searched everywhere I could on Google, but either nothing worked or was not related…
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Failed to mount UDF
I'm on Xubuntu 64 bit 14.04. When I had windows 7, I burnt a CD, it was like 4 months ago, now I need to open that CD in Xubuntu, since I no longer have windows.
Solution 1 (didn't work)
sudo apt-get install libudf0
Solution 2 (didn't work)
sudo…
Lynob
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UDF DVD mount issues in Maverick
When I insert the DVD into my drive i see it mounts, but i can not access it unless i am root.
Doing ls -l on the mount i get no access permissions:
$ pwd
/media
$ ls -l
d--------- 4 haimov haimov 136 2011-05-06 05:22 UDF Volume
What can be the…
Alex
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genisoimage and exec bit preservation
Maybe I'm just not doing right, but I can't seem to get genisoimage to
produce a UDF image and preserve the exec bit.
$ genisoimage --version
genisoimage 1.1.11 (Linux)
$ echo "echo 'Hello world'" > script.sh
$ chmod +x script.sh
$ ./script.sh…
Kip
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Cannot delete from UDF partition (SSD)
I have Xubuntu 16.10 and I dual boot with Windows 10. I have a secondary SSD drive and wanted to choose a somewhat OS-agnostic filesystem for it so I can use it both Windows and Linux, and after doing some research, I decided to try UDF.
I have…
Adam Plocher
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