Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

Name

drutil

Synopsis

drutil help [subcommand]
drutil { version | list | poll }
drutil { info | discinfo | trackinfo | status | cdtext | subchannel | eject } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil { erase | bulkerase } { full | quick } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil tray { eject | open | close } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil getconfig { current | supported } [-drive drive_spec]
drutil filename filename
drutil dumpiso device block_num [format]
drutil burn [-test] [-appendable] [-erase] [-mount] [-noverify] [-nohfsplus] [-noiso9660]
 [-nojoliet] [-noudf] [-nofs] [-disctitle title] [-audio]
 [-pregap] path

Manages disk drives that can write to optical media, using the Disc Recording framework.

Options

atip

Prints the Absolute Time in Pre-Groove (ATIP).

bulkerase

Erase an optical disk as the erase subcommand, and then prompt for another disk to erase. This repeats until the process is killed.

burn

Burn a file or directory to disc. For burning a disk image, use the burn verb in hdiutil.

cdtext

Display CD-Text data contained on an audio CD.

discinfo

Print information about the optical disk in the drive to standard output.

dumpiso

Dump ISO-9660 and Joliet formatting data from an optical disk. The device argument is a disk device filename, such as/dev/disk1. The block_num argument specifies the block to dump. The format argument is one of None, Boot, Dir, HFSPlusVH, LPath, MPath, PVD, SVD, VDST, or VPD.

eject

Unmount and eject an optical disk. Same as drutil tray eject.

erase

Erase a rewritable optical disk and ...