mkisofs+cdrecord and Windows compatability
Michael Hong
msh7-U2XT7ciQrQL3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 4 06:41:07 UTC 2005
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:43 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I use linux... but other people use Windows. I make backups twice a
> month at home (don't you wish everybody did?) and it's saved me from
> myself on a few occasions. My linux machine can read the CDs it burns.
>
> When I make CDs for other people, WindowsXP can read them. However,
> XP sees the file names munged to 8.3 format. What commandline switches
> am I missing? I move or copy all the files I want burned to the "xfer"
> subdirectory, and run the short script...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> mkisofs -R xfer | cdrecord -tao -v fs=8m -data dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 -
You can add '-J' to mkisofs to add Joliet records and get up to 64
characters per filename in windoze.
mkisofs -R -J xfer...
Michael
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