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Posted: **Sat May 10, 2025 2:14 pm**

Afternoon,

I formatted a DVD for RW like a USB Flash Disk as Windows does when you insert a new DVD. Now I need to be able to write other data to this DVD from my Rocky server, but I'm unable too, which leads me to this question:

How do I mount the DVD for RW so I can add additional data or just be able to use it for both OS?

Located Here:

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$ lsblk
NAME                                          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                             8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk  
├─sda1                                          8:1    0   256M  0 part  /boot/efi
├─sda2                                          8:2    0     1G  0 part  /boot
└─sda3                                          8:3    0 464.5G  0 part  
  └─luks-4d910e9f-f496-4009-b5b9-350cd9117b18 253:0    0 464.5G  0 crypt /
sdb                                             8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk  
├─sdb1                                          8:17   0   600M  0 part  
├─sdb2                                          8:18   0   128M  0 part  
├─sdb3                                          8:19   0 929.8G  0 part  
├─sdb4                                          8:20   0   552M  0 part  
└─sdb5                                          8:21   0   450M  0 part  
sdc                                             8:32   0   1.8T  0 disk  
└─sdc1                                          8:33   0   1.8T  0 part  
sr0                                            11:0    1   4.2G  0 rom

Posted: **Sat May 10, 2025 11:39 pm**

Multi-session discs from Windows are usually only good as coasters when introduced to another machine, let alone another OS.

I can not tell you how awful it was to have to repeatedly tell customers again and again how their MultiSession CD/DVD media created with Windows ME thru to XP drag and drop were infinitesimally useless to them on anything but the original PC on which they were originally started, and at best they might be lucky enough to read ONLY the last session burnt to that disk. The volume of failures was off the charts for Multisession Optical disks.

That said, if you're game and can use the CLI with confidence, and don't mind using CLI utilities to rescue data, you can consult the following link.

https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/ ... ession_dvd

The long and short of it all, I recommend folk stay away from them because MultiSession Optical was a ticking time bomb from the day of it first inception.

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