[PLUG] CDROM filename problem

[Bill Spears]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 02:30, Vincent Damewood wrote:
> I find that -r is often times better. It sets the
> owner  and group of all the files on the CD to root,
> and sets everything to chmod 444 or 555 as

Good point. Both your -r and -J points would apply to say a collection
of Java examples, which you'd what to be as portable as possible in
spite of the /r/n problem.

But if I'm backing up a home directory -R would be better, right?
> appropriate. I've gotten headaches about mismatching
> UID's if I try to access an old '-R' cd's after I've
> wiped my drive clean and installed a new distro, thus
> having to login as root to just copy the file. (It
> seems that I had a few chmod 600 files).
> 
> Also if you plan on using these CD's with Windows, It
> would be a good idea to use the -J flag too for long
> filenames in Windows 95+.

Yes, one of the uses is backing up files from a Samba directory which
has files from that other OS.
 I, personally, don't have
> any intention of using Windows, but I set this flag
> just in case.
> 
> Peace,
> Vincent Damewood
> 
> --- Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com> wrote:
> > Yup, its a problem with mkisofs. It needs an -R
> > option to cause it to
> > write extra info that allows the files on the CD to
> > appear to have stuff
> > like uid, gid, ownership and proper file names.
> > 
> > The book I used before, Red Hat Linux 7.3 Bible,
> > forgot to mention this,
> > perhaps thinking that a Linux user might deep in his
> > heart prefer DOS
> > file names.
> > 
> > Correct usage: mkisofs -R -o /tmp/whatever.cd 
> > /home/weewillywinkle
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 11:29, Derek Loree wrote:
> > > Hi Bill,
> > > 
> > > When I call up gcombust (my favorite front end for
> > cdrecord and
> > > friends), there is a setting for "allow 32 char
> > filenames".  Since this
> > > is on by default, I've never burned with it off. 
> > However, this does
> > > seem like it would be an option for cdrecord
> > and/or mkisofs.  There is
> > > also an option (off by default) for "allow
> > untranslated filenames", but
> > > I've never had a need to try it.
> > > 
> > > HTH
> > > 
> > > Derek Loree
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:24, Bill Spears wrote:
> > > > I just looked at some CDROM backups I made and
> > noticed that the
> > > > filenames were in DOS format.  Anybody know what
> > causes this. I just
> > > > used cdrecord and mkisofs to make the disks. 
> > Did I miss a command line
> > > > option here?
> > > > 
> > > >