Hi, I would like to know how can I burn a folder with cdrecord? thanks a lot.

Nope, you can't.

What you can do, however, is (if you're in a GUI) run some other X app that allows you to select what to burn (K3B is good). If, however, you are not in X, you can do so using mkisofs and then burning that to the CD - that is all GUI apps do anyway, but they wrap it up in a nice sugar coating... yum!

If I understand your question correctly, you are asking how you can burn a directory (and all the files within it) to a CD. If that is the case, you can just use the command line as Thymox has indicated. It's easy, and let's assume that the directory is called: /home/user/whatever

1. Make your image file, which we'll call "my_image.img" by running this command:
mkisofs -r -o my_image.img /home/user/whatever

2. Burn it to CD by running this command:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -data my_image.img

Obviously you should adjust the speed parameter to match your CD-RW. Personally I recommend running it slower than it's capable of just to minimize the possibility of making a coaster. Burn away. -- J.W.

thanks i was having the same problem, i'll try what you guys suggested.
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