[olug] mkisofs options for DVD mount on Windows

Eric P eric.maillist at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 16:00:53 UTC 2009


Hi,

I'm burning a data DVD under Linux for a Windows user.  The DVD file structure/names appear correctly when mounted under 
Linux, but under Windows everything got the 8.3 file naming restriction treatment which especially sucks since most of 
the files where 'flac' files (they all came out *.FLA).

General Windows anger aside, I'm thinking this may be due to a parameter I did (or did not) pass into mkisofs when I 
created the ISO image to burn.

Here are the mkisofs and growisofs commands I used:

$ mkisofs -o d1.iso -r -v -V "Trip Shakespeare 1987-1991" d1
$ growisofs -Z /dev/scd1=d1.iso -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -speed=4


The -r in mkisofs is for Rock Ridge (for longer Unix file names I think).  I wonder if I need to pass in -J which is 
Microsoft's Joliet "file system".  Anyone know for sure?

If all else fails I guess I could try something like k3b.

Thanks,
Eric


Ref.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Ridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_(file_system)



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