On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:15:51PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Yes. As far as my experience goes, there's not a lot of difference. > I've had no occasion to *write* DVDs on a computer system, so I can > only speak of reading them.
For writing, fstab and mount are not involved in any way whatsoever. The device must *not* be mounted, and one must ensure that no Desktop Environment application will attempt to auto-mount the medium while the write is underway. After generating or downloading the image, one simply uses a command like cdrecord -v image.iso or the equivalent command for other software. On a machine with just one CD/DVD drive, you typically don't even need to specify the device.
