Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:00:30 +0100 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW long filenames/rw filesystem. Message-ID: <19991230230030.A9721@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <19991230122336.C25831@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:23:36PM -0800 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991230141101.28572E-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> <19991230122336.C25831@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 12:23:36 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > [Redirected to -questions where it belonged.] > > On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:19:58PM -0500, Kenny Drobnack wrote: > > A couple weeks ago I got a CD-RW drive, and decided to try it out under > > all the different OS's I use. In FreeBSD, the only way (it seems) to use > > it, is grab a bunch of stuff you want to backup/record and use mkisofs and > > cdrecord to dump it onto a CD. Everything I read seemed to indicate that > > this method limits you to the 8.3 filename format of iso9660 and all > > Rockridge does is add file/group permissions and ownership. is there any > > CD recording utilities/formats that can do long filenames (hopefully with > > Unix permissions)? > > This is incorrect. Rockridge adds long file names on OSes that support > the extensions (i.e. UNIX). If you want them to work with windows you > can use mkhybird to add Joliet extensions the disk as well. > The latest mkisofs from the ports collection also supports it. Since mkisofs is being in development (and comes with cdrecord) I recommend it. I normally make CD-images with something like: mkisofs -v -o <ouput-file> -a -d -J -D -L -r -T <input dirs> This creates an image which will be usable under Win9x/NT (Joliet extension) and UNIX (RR extension). Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Udo Schweigert || Voice : +49 89 636 42170 Siemens AG, Siemens CERT || Fax : +49 89 636 41166 ZT IK 3 || email : Udo.Schweigert@mchp.siemens.de D-81730 Muenchen / Germany || : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP fingerprint || 2A 53 F6 A6 30 59 64 02 6B C4 E0 73 B2 C9 6C E7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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