>>105580820
i really butchered that grammar, i should proofread when drinking
>basically with a cd data track you* pack everything into an iso the size of the data, and burn that
i'll fix this since it doesn't make sense as it was

also should mention that an .iso (a proper .iso, not a raw multi-track image named .iso) is actually just a filesystem track on its' own, which is more correctly equivalent to an image of a /partition/, not an entire disc
you may not even need to make a raw image at all. if it's a single partition and you only care about the files in it rather than the exact structure of everything else, you could use something like squashfs (linux filesystems) or wim (ntfs, via wimlib). they're archive formats, so they don't preserve the original filesystem, but they record all the relevant metadata to restore files exactly how they were, and they support deduplication and compression. they also ignore slack space as they work at the file level, not block level