pktsetup(8)

pktsetup8

Set up and tear down packet device associations

Usage

pktsetup packet_device block_device

pktsetup -d packet_device

pktsetup -s

Overview

Pktsetup is used to associate packet devices with CD or DVD block devices, so that the packet device can then be mounted and potentially used as a read/write filesystem. This requires kernel support for the packet device, and the UDF filesystem.

See: HOWTO.udf (in the udftools documents directory)

Exit status

Pktsetup returns 0 on success, nonzero on failure.

Options

-d packet-device

Delete the association between the specified packet-device and its block device.

-s

Show the current device mapping, one device per line, in the format
name : pktdevid -> blkdevid
(e.g. "0 : 253:0 -> 22:0")

Examples

The following commands provide an example of using the packet device.


    

    
        

cdrwtool -d /dev/sr0 -q pktsetup 0 /dev/sr0

mount -t udf /dev/pktcdvd0 /mnt
... umount /dev/pktcdvd0 pktsetup -d 0

Files

/dev/pktcdvd0,/dev/pktcdvd1,...  CD/DVD packet devices

Releases

7 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 9–Arch

-s since Debian 9 (Stretch).

Author

Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Some additions by Richard Atterer <[email protected]>

Availability

pktsetup is part of the udftools package and is available from https://github.com/pali/udftools/.

From udftools 2.3-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.