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Re: How to create an ISO image with very long file/directory names?



On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:39 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:19:32AM +0200, Daniel M. wrote:
> > Is there is any way to create a burnable (and readable afterwards)
> > image file with file/directory names of an (almost) arbitrary length
> > (up to 1000 characters would be enough for my purpose)?
> 
> mkisofs -rJ -o x.iso files/
> 
> CDROM file systems do not allow for extraordinarily long filenames.
> mkisofs will warn you that certain filenames will be "identical on
> output"
> 
> I hit the issues you''re talking about because sometimes abcde will
> create very long title names consisting of an entire band's name
> and entire album name with spaces and punctation.
> 
> Some of the classical music can be extremely long!

If the CD is for archival purposes, maybe you could use tar to
encapsulate it all into a file with a shorter name?

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