On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> I have a couple of quick questions about cdrecord and CD-RW drives.
>
> 1) To re-write to a CD-RW drive, I gather you must use the blank=all
> parameter. Must I issue this as a separate command like so before telling
> cdrecord to write the image to the disk:
>
>
> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 blank=all
>
> or can I combine the commands on one line like so:
>
> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,6,0 blank=all /u1/tmpcd/cdimage.raw
>
> 2) I noticed that the disk created truncates all file names to 8
> characters, which is obviously not what I want. Is there a way around
> this? Or must I create a tarball first and then create an image from the
> tarball to preserve long filenames?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
I think if you tell it to use a "joliet" file system, it'll
leave the filenames intact. At least, when I custom-create
a CD with XCDRoast (GUI front-end to cdrecord) I just leave
everything set to the default. Works fine for me.
John
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