Re: genisoimage and truncating of file names
On 01/05/2012, Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:16:54AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> On 30/04/2012, Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 30/04/2012, keith <km3952@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:47:11 +0100
>> >> Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I am creating an iso with genisoimage prepatory to burning it to dvd
>> >>> for backing up of my music collection, and on checking the resulting
>> >>> disc I'm finding that the mp3 name is truncated to the first word of
>> >>> its title. I feel that this is happening with genisoimage and would
>> >>> obvioulsy like to have the full mp3 title.
>> >>>
>> >>> The command to genisoimage is ......... genisoimage -o
>> >>> ~/irishceltic.iso /home/boztu/Music/Irish\ Celtic\ Music\ Collection\
>> >>> Version\ 2/ .......... which creates the file irishceltic.iso .
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Try it with:-
>> >>
>> >> genisoimage -o irishceltic.iso -R -J -l -v -V "Irish Celtic"
>> >> -hide-rr-moved
>> >> .
>> >>
>> >>
>> > When I run the above command this is the result ........ File
>> > ./irishceltic.iso is larger than 4GiB-1.
>> > -allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent
>> > this file size. Aborting.
>> >
>> > irishceltic.iso is 18.9gb in size
>> >
>> I've just completed a blog posting about all of this, where you can
>> see what I've done and in what order too.
>>
>> However, my final act was to burn the xaa.iso file to a dvd using k3b.
>> Looking at the finished dvd I see that every file name is truncated to
>> the first 12 characters, something which I think k3b is doing. Is
>> there any way round this that folks know please? It seems a pity to
>> spoil all the work done at the final step!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>> --
>>
>
> Why don't you just rename your files, replacing the spaces with
> underscores?
> It's easy enough to do and to reverse...
>
> --
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> Indulekha
Thats exactly what i've just done using a script that’s been given me
which replaces the spaces with underscores, it did the whole shebang
in less time than it takes me to brew a cup o f tea!
Thanks
Sharon.
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