[olug] mkisofs options for DVD mount on Windows
Eric P
eric.maillist at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 03:31:22 UTC 2009
>>
>> 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?
>
> You're exactly right. It's common to enable both Rock Ridge and Joliet
> for ensuring cross-platform compatibility. When enabling Joliet with
> -J, you might also use the -hide-joliet-trans-tbl flag to hide some of
> the supporting files that it adds to map the filenames.
>
I ran with -J. I didn't use the '-hide-joliet-...' parameter, but everything looked find under Windows XP. I didn't
see the Joliet file (TRANS.TBL).
Thanks!
Eric Pierce
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