Questions tagged [udf]

Universal Disk Format (UDF)

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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…
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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…
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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 I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.…
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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 put…
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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 to…
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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…
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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…
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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 Hello…
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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…
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