Re: When is it not okay to delete cache files?

Josef Lowder wrote:
> I use cdrecord from the command line to burn a cd backup
> of all of my home directory files, and when I do that, the
> process displays a long list of files with the message:
>

>     "Using CACHEnnnn.ZZZ for /home/joe/....... "

>
> A long list of numbers appears instead of "nnnn.ZZZ" and
> corresponding "cache" filenames appear instead of "......."
> in the above example.
>
> Most of these filenames appear in "dot" (.) subdirectories and
> many have dates a year or two old.
>
> Is there any reason why any of these files cannot be deleted
> off my system?
>

I don't know, Joe, but I'd like to learn a bit more about the process.

What is the exact cdrecord command you use?

I have created backups using mkisofs, burned the iso image. Are you
skipping the mkisofs step, or does cdrecord handle that for you?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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