Burning an ISO to a DVD-R/DVD-RW/CD-R from Linux Command Line

October 31st, 2013

It is easy to burn a DVD-R/DVD-RW/CD-R from the command line in Linux. Just insert your blank disc and run this command.  If you do not have wodim installed your might have to install cdrkit.

wodim -v -sao dev=/dev/srX filename.iso

  • -v is to make the out verbose offering you more information if something goes wrong.
  • -sao sets burning to session at once
  • dev=/dev/srX selects the drive that will be used to burn the disc.  You will need to change srX to whatever the device you are using is.
  • filename.iso is the filename of the image you want to burn.