On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:40 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > > Hello, does anyone know how to make an ISO and then burn it to a CD
> > > with the full filenames preserved?  I tried specifying Joliet and Rock
> > > Ridge but the output from mkisofs looks like the filenames are being
> > > altered.
> > 
> > AFAICR none of the available CD filesystems support the full range of
> > Unix filenames.

Using Rock Ridge extension AND translation tables (man cdrecord) does.
One should avoid Joliet if the CD shall not be used on Wondies.

Regards
Frank

PS: Excuse me that "middle posting" ;)

> > 
> > If this is for backup purposes you might be better off just making a tar
> > file and burning that directly to CD - tar is designed for archiving,
> > after all. The resulting CD will be readable by e.g. "tar
> > tvf /dev/cdrom".
> 
> I ended up tar'ing it and it works fine.  Thanks for everyone's help.
> 
> - Grant
> 
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