Chong Yu Meng wrote:
Hi all,
I need help with the command for burning DVDs on Fedora Core. After
struggling for a while, I now have 3 lovely coasters and I am down to my
last 3 DVD discs, so I am hoping to get this right within 3 tries.
First, a little background: I'm trying to transfer the data contents
(not movies or music) of 2 directories, containing rsync'ed extras and
updates for FC5 to DVD so I can bring it to Hong Kong to prepare a
server there.
Here's what I did:
1. First, I made an ISO file:
$ mkisofs -v -l -r -max-iso9660-filenames -no-bak -o
updates.iso /tmp/x86_64
2. Next, I mount it loopback and check, and the filenames look OK to
me.
$ sudo mount -o loop updates.iso /mnt/tempimage
3. Then I burn to DVD with this command:
$ sudo growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=updates.iso
Here's the problem: when I read the resulting DVD in Windows, I get all
the filenames in uppercase, and some are conflated.
For making DVDs readable on Windows, use Joliet extensions (-joliet
option in mkisofs).
> When I read the DVD
in Linux, it looks right too, but when I try to copy the files to the
hard disk, I get "Input/output errors" for some files. I suspect it
could be because the filenames are too long.
So here's my question: could somebody give me the correct syntax for
burning the files to DVD using growisofs?
I would prefer not to use the graphical tools, because I will need to
use the same command for backup to DVDs in future.
Your growisofs usage looks OK but you could also try cdrecord:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BackupFilesToCDorDVD
Try to keep the burn speed down for reliable reading on other systems.
Paul.
