CLX archive - 1998: R: cdrom long filenames problem

R: cdrom long filenames problem

Martino (edvpm@acnielsen.co.uk)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 22:12:33 +0100

> If I remember this correctly, the basic ISO9660 file system supports
> only the 8.3 notation in file names. There is, however, a number
> of extensions, one is called "Rock-Ridge" extension, another one
> is called "Joliet". The Rock-Ridge is kind of a Unix-standard in that
> it keeps the real (long) file names in a special file and I think
> also file permission etc.

Yes it does, I did the same as Filip, so I had to compile an utility found
in some Slackware cdrom, called makeisofs. Simply you have to name a
directory or some directories to search in, and then almost automagically
you have
a clean iso9660+Rock Ridge extension image of all the files contained in
the source path named. I did myself the whole image of my hard disk then I
transfered the file to my other machine, which has the cdr writer.
That's all.
>
> The Joliet extension is probably Microsoft-proprietary. This may be
> what your CD is written with. You should study the manual page for
> the mount command. There may be special options that you must use to
> mount that CD.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> 73 Ben, DL6RAI

Well I think you must have a kernel version up to 2.0.30 ( am I right ?) to
read joliet cdrom.

73 Martino -IK4DRV