On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:28:54PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I want to send some files via CD-R to someone using Mac OS X. What type of file system > should format the CD with? Is something like vfat going to be the most portable? > > Also, is there a way to tell what file systems I can specify to mkfs? > > you want to amke a hybrid iso9660/hfs CD you ca use mkisofs to do this: mkisofs -r -J -hfs -o cd.iso cdfilelocation/ -r will use rockridge extensions to iso an make the cd look sensible under unices, -J will use MS joliet extensions and make the CD look sensible under windows and -hfs will create an hfs filesystem which will look sensible on a mac. man mkisofs has lots of detail about these and other realted options. cheers dc -- David Purton dcpurton@chariot.net.au If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? Psalm 130:3
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