MKISOFS(8)

NAME
mkisofs - create a ISO9660 filesystem with optional Rock Ridge attributes and Joliet hybrid data.

SYNOPSIS
mkisofs [ -abstract FILE ] [ -allow-lowercase ] [ -allow-multidot ] [ -biblio FILE ] [ -b eltorito_boot_image ] [ -B sparc_boot_image_list ] [ -G generic_boot_image ] [ -gui ] [ -C #,# ] [ -hard-disk-boot ] [ -no-emul-boot ] [ -no-boot ] [ -boot-load-seg ] [ -boot-load-size ] [ -boot-info-table ] [ -c boot_catalog ] [ -check-oldnames ] [ -copyright FILE ] [ -A application_id ] [ -f ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -hide glob ] [ -hide-list file ] [ -hidden glob ] [ -hidden-list file ] [ -hide-joliet glob ] [ -hide-joliet-list file ] [ -hide-joliet-trans-tbl ] [ -hide-rr-moved ] [ -iso-level level ] [ -J ] [ -jcharset charset ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -log-file log_file ] [ -max-iso9660-filenames ] [ -M path | device ] [ -nobak ] [ -no-bak ] [ -no-split-symlink-components ] [ -no-split-symlink-fields ] [ -pad ] [ -path-list file ] [ -p preparer ] [ -print-size ] [ -P publisher ] [ -quiet ] [ -r ] [ -R ] [ -relaxed-filenames ] [ -sort sort file ] [ -sysid ID ] [ -T | -table-name TABLE_NAME ] [ -ucs-level level ] [ -use-fileversion ] [ -U ] [ -no-iso-translate ] [ -v ] [ -V volid ] [ -volset ID ] [ -volset-size # ] [ -volset-seqno # ] [ -x path ] [ -exclude-list file ] [ -z ] [ -m glob ] -o filename pathspec [pathspec]

DESCRIPTION
mkisofs is effectively a pre-mastering program to generate the iso9660 filesystem - it takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which will correspond to an iso9660 filesystem when written to a block device.

mkisofs is also capable of generating the System Use Sharing Protocol records specified by the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol. This is used to further describe the files in the iso9660 filesystem to a unix host, and provides information such as longer filenames, uid/gid, posix permissions, and block and character devices.

Each file written to the iso9660 filesystem must have a filename in the 8.3 format (8 characters, period, 3 characters, all upper case), even if Rock Ridge is in use. This filename is used on systems that are not able to make use of the Rock Ridge extensions (such as MS-DOS), and each filename in each directory must be different from the other filenames in the same directory. mkisofs generally tries to form correct names by forcing the unix filename to upper case and truncating as required, but often times this yields unsatisfactory results when there are cases where the truncated names are not all unique. mkisofs assigns weightings to each filename, and if two names that are otherwise the same are found the name with the lower priority is renamed to have a 3 digit number as an extension (where the number is guaranteed to be unique). An example of this would be the files foo.bar and foo.bar.~1~ - the file foo.bar.~1~ would be written as FOO.000;1 and the file foo.bar would be written as FOO.BAR;1

Note that mkisofs is not designed to communicate with the writer directly. Most writers have proprietary command sets which vary from one manufacturer to another, and you need a specialized tool to actually burn the disk. The cdwrite utility is one such tool that runs under Linux and performs this task. The latest version of cdwrite is capable of communicating with the Phillips/IMS/Kodak, HP and Yamaha drives that have been manufactured before 1997. Most writers come with some version of DOS software that allows a direct image copy of an iso9660 image to the writer. The current version of cdwrite is available from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/utils/disk-management/cdwrite-2.0.tar.gz Note that cdwrite has not been actively maintained since 1995.

The cdrecord utility is another utility capable of burning an actual disc. The latest version of cdrecord is available from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord Cdrecord is under constant development.

Also you should know that most cd writers are very particular about timing. Once you start to burn a disc, you cannot let their buffer empty before you are done, or you will end up with a corrupt disc. Thus it is critical that you be able to maintain an uninterrupted data stream to the writer for the entire time that the disc is being written.

pathspec is the path of the directory tree to be copied into the iso9660 filesystem. Multiple paths can be specified, and mkisofs will merge the files found in all of the specified path components to form the cdrom image.

It is possible to graft the paths at points other than the root directory, and it is possible to graft files or directories onto the cdrom image with names different than what they have in the source filesystem. This is easiest to illustrate with a couple of examples. Let's start by assuming that a local file ../old.lis exists, and you wish to include it in the cdrom image.
    foo/bar/=../old.lis will include the file old.lis in the cdrom image at /foo/bar/old.lis, while
    foo/bar/xxx=../old.lis will include the file old.lis in the cdrom image at /foo/bar/xxx. The same sort of syntax can be used with directories as well. mkisofs will create any directories required such that the graft points exist on the cdrom image - the directories do not need to appear in one of the paths. Any directories that are created on the fly like this will have permissions 0555 and appear to be owned by the person running mkisofs. If you wish other permissions or owners of the intermediate directories, the easiest solution is to create real directories in the path such that mkisofs doesn't have to invent them.

mkisofs will also run on Win9X/NT4 machines when compiled with Cygnus' cygwin (available from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/). Therefore most references in this man page to Unix can be replaced with Win32.

OPTIONS

-abstract FILE
    Specifies the abstract file name. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with ABST=filename. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-A application_id
    Specifies a text string that will be written into the volume header. This should describe the application that will be on the disc. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with APPI=id. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-allow-lowercase
    This options allows lower case characters to appear in iso9660 filenames.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on some systems. Use with caution.

-allow-multidot
    This options allows more than one dot to appear in iso9660 filenames. A leading dot is not affected by this option, it may be allowed separately using the -L option.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-biblio FILE
    Specifies the bibliographic file name. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with BIBLO=filename. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-b eltorito_boot_image
    Specifies the path and filename of the boot image to be used when making an "El Torito" bootable CD. The pathname must be relative to the source path specified to mkisofs. This option is required to make an "El Torito" bootable CD. The boot image must be exactly the size of either a 1.2, 1.44, or a 2.88 meg floppy, and mkisofs will use this size when creating the output iso9660 filesystem. It is assumed that the first 512 byte sector should be read from the boot image (it is essentially emulating a normal floppy drive). This will work, for example, if the boot image is a LILO based boot floppy.

-B img_sun4,img_sun4c,img_sun4m,img_sun4d,img_sun4e
    Specifies a comma separated list of boot images that are needed to make a bootable CD for sparc systems. There may be empty fields in the comma separated list. This option is required to make a bootable CD for Sun sparc systems. If the -B or -sparc-boot option has been specified, the first sector of the resulting image will contain a Sun disk label. This disk label specifies slice 0 for the iso9660 image and slice 1 ... slice 7 for the boot images that have been specified with this option. Byte offset 512 ... 8191 within each of the additional boot images must contain a primary boot that works for the appropriate sparc architecture. The rest of each of the images usually contains an ufs filesystem that is used primary kernel boot stage.

    The implemented boot method is the boot method found with SunOS 4.x and SunOS 5.x. However, it does not depend on SunOS internals but only on properties of the Open Boot prom. For this reason, it should be usable for any OS that boots off a sparc system.

    If the special filename ... is used, the actual and all following boot partitions are mapped to the previous partition. If mkisofs is called with -G image -B ... all boot partitions are mapped to the partition that contains the iso9660 filesystem image and the generic boot image that is located in the first 16 sectors of the disk is used for all architectures.

-G generic_boot_image
    Specifies the path and filename of the generic boot image to be used when making a generic bootable CD. The generic_boot_image will be placed on the first 16 sectors of the CD. The first 16 sectors are the sectors that are located before the iso9660 primary volume descriptor. If this option is used together with the -sparc-boot option, the Sun disk label will overlay the first 512 bytes of the generic boot image.

-hard-disk-boot
    Specifies that the boot image used to create "El Torito" bootable CDs is a hard disk image. The hard disk image must begin with a master boot record that contains a single partition.

-no-emul-boot
    Specifies that the boot image used to create "El Torito" bootable CDs is a 'no emulation' image. The system will load and execute this image without performing any disk emulation.

-no-boot
    Specifies that the created "El Torito" CD should be marked as not bootable. The system will provide an emulated drive for the image, but will boot off a standard boot device.

-boot-load-seg segment_address
    Specifies the load segment address of the boot image for no-emulation "El Torito" CDs.

-boot-load-size load_sectors
    Specifies the number of "virtual" (512-byte) sectors to load in no-emulation mode. The default is to load the entire boot file. Some BIOSes may have problems if this is not a multiple of 4.

-boot-info-table
    Specifies that a 56-byte table with information of the CD-ROM layout will be patched in at offset 8 in the boot file. If this option is given, the boot file is modified in the source filesystem, so make sure to make a copy if this file cannot be easily regenerated! See the BOOT INFO TABLE section for a description of this table.

-C last_sess_start,next_sess_start
    This option is needed when mkisofs is used to create the image of a second session or a higher level session for a multi session disk. The option -C takes a pair of two numbers separated by a comma. The first number is the sector number of the first sector in the last session of the disk that should be appended to. The second number is the starting sector number of the new session. The expected pair of numbers may be retrieved by calling cdrecord -msinfo ... the -C option may only be uses in conjunction with the -M option.

-c boot_catalog
    Specifies the path and filename of the boot catalog to be used when making an "El Torito" bootable CD. The pathname must be relative to the source path specified to mkisofs. This option is required to make a bootable CD. This file will be inserted into the output tree and not created in the source filesystem, so be sure the specified filename does not conflict with an existing file, as it will be excluded. Usually a name like "boot.catalog" is chosen.

-check-oldnames
    Check all filenames imported from old session for compliance with actual mkisofs iso9660 file naming rules. It his option is not present, only names with a length > 31 are checked as these files are a hard violation of the iso9660 standard.

-copyright FILE
    Specifies the Copyright file name. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with COPY=filename. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-d  Omit trailing period from files that do not have a period.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-D  Do not use deep directory relocation, and instead just pack them in the way we see them.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-f  Follow symbolic links when generating the filesystem. When this option is not in use, symbolic links will be entered using Rock Ridge if enabled, otherwise the file will be ignored.

-gui
    Switch the behaviour for a GUI. This currently makes the output more verbose but may have other effects in future.

-hide glob
    Hide glob from being seen on the ISO9660 or Rock Ridge directory. glob is a shell wild-card-style pattern that must match any part of the filename or path. Multiple globs may be hidden. If glob matches a directory, then the contents of that directory will be hidden. All the hidden files will still be written to the output CD image file. Should be used with the -hide-joliet option.

-hide-list file
    A file containing a list of globs to be hidden as above.

-hidden glob
    Add the hidden (existence) ISO9660 directory attribute for glob. This attribute will prevent glob from being listed on DOS based systems if the /A flag is not used for the listing. glob is a shell wild-card-style pattern that must match any part of the filename or path. Multiple globs may be hidden.

-hidden-list file
    A file containing a list of globs to get the hidden attribute as above.

-hide-joliet glob
    Hide glob from being seen on the Joliet directory. glob is a shell wild-card-style pattern that must match any part of the filename or path. Multiple globs may be hidden. If glob matches a directory, then the contents of that directory will be hidden. All the hidden files will still be written to the output CD image file. Should be used with the -hide option.

-hide-joliet-list file
    A file containing a list of globs to be hidden as above.

-hide-joliet-trans-tbl
    Hide the TRANS.TBL files from the Joliet tree. These files usually don't make sense in the Joliet World as they list the real name and the ISO9660 name which may both be different from the Joliet name.

-hide-rr-moved
    Rename the directory RR_MOVED to .rr_moved in the Rock Ridge tree. It seems to be impossible to completely hide the RR_MOVED directory from the Rock Ridge tree. This option only makes the visible tree better to understand for people who don't know what this directory is for. If you need to have no RR_MOVED directory at all, you should use the -D option. Note that in case that the -D option has been specified, the resulting filesystem is not ISO9660 level-1 compliant and will not be readable on MS-DOS.

-l  Allow full 31 character filenames. Normally the ISO9660 filename will be in an 8.3 format which is compatible with MS-DOS, even though the ISO9660 standard allows filenames of up to 31 characters. If you use this option, the disc may be difficult to use on a MS-DOS system, but this comes in handy on some other systems (such as the Amiga). Use with caution.

-iso-level level
    Set the iso9660 conformance level. Valid numbers are 1..3.

    With level 1, no associated files are allowed and filenames are restricted to 8.3 characters.

    With level 2, no associated files are allowed.

    With level 3, no restrictions apply.

    With all iso9660 levels all filenames are restricted to upper case letters, numbers and the underscore (_). The maximum filename length is restricted to 31 characters, the directory nesting level is restricted to 8 and the maximum path length is limited to 255 characters.

-J  Generate Joliet directory records in addition to regular iso9660 file names. This is primarily useful when the discs are to be used on Windows-NT or Windows-95 machines. The Joliet filenames are specified in Unicode and each path component can be up to 64 Unicode characters long.

-jcharset charset
    Local charset that should be used for translating local file names into Joliet Unicode directory records. To get a list of valid charset names, call mkisofs -jcharset help. To get a 1:1 mapping, you may use default as charset name. The default initial values are cp437 on DOS based systems and iso8859-1 on all other systems. If the -jcharset option is specified, the -J option is implied.

-L  Allow ISO9660 filenames to begin with a period. Usually, a leading dot is replaced with an underscore in order to maintain MS-DOS compatibility.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-log-file log_file
    Redirect all error, warning and informational messages to log_file instead of the standard error.

-m glob
    Exclude glob from being written to CDROM. glob is a shell wild-card-style pattern that must match part of the filename (not the path as with option -x). Technically glob is matched against the d->d_name part of the directory entry. Multiple globs may be excluded. Example: mkisofs -o rom -m '*.o' -m core -m foobar would exclude all files ending in ".o", called "core" or "foobar" to be copied to CDROM. Note that if you had a directory called "foobar" it too (and of course all its descendants) would be excluded.

    NOTE: The -m and -x option description should both be updated, they are wrong. Both now work identical and use filename globbing. A file is excluded if either the last component matches or the whole path matches.

-exclude-list file
    A file containing a list of globs to be exclude as above.

-max-iso9660-filenames
    Allow 37 chars in iso9660 filenames. This option forces the -N option as the extra name space is taken from the space reserved for ISO-9660 version numbers.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Although a conforming application needs to provide a buffer space of at least 37 characters, disks created with this option may cause a buffer overflow in the reading operating system. Use with extreme care.

-M path
    or

-M device
    Specifies path to existing iso9660 image to be merged. The alternate form takes a SCSI device specifier that uses the same syntax as the dev= parameter of cdrecord. The output of mkisofs will be a new session which should get written to the end of the image specified in -M. Typically this requires multi-session capability for the recorder and cdrom drive that you are attempting to write this image to. This option may only be used in conjunction with the -C option.

-N  Omit version numbers from ISO9660 file names.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but no one really uses the version numbers anyway. Use with caution.

-nobak

-no-bak
    Do not include backup files files on the iso9660 filesystem. If the -no-bak option is specified, files that contain the characters '~' or '#' or end in '.bak' will not be included (these are typically backup files for editors under unix).

-no-rr
    Do not use the Rock Ridge attributes from previous sessions. This may help to avoid getting into trouble when mkisofs finds illegal Rock Ridge signatures on an old session.

-no-split-symlink-components
    Don't split the SL components, but begin a new Continuation Area (CE) instead. This may waste some space, but the SunOS 4.1.4 cdrom driver has a bug in reading split SL components (link_size = component_size instead of link_size += component_size).

-no-split-symlink-fields
    Don't split the SL fields, but begin a new Continuation Area (CE) instead. This may waste some space, but the SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5.1 cdrom driver have a bug in reading split SL fields (a `/' can be dropped).

-o filename
    is the name of the file to which the iso9660 filesystem image should be written. This can be a disk file, a tape drive, or it can correspond directly to the device name of the optical disc writer. If not specified, stdout is used. Note that the output can also be a block special device for a regular disk drive, in which case the disk partition can be mounted and examined to ensure that the premastering was done correctly.

-pad
    Pad the end of the ISO9660 by 16 sectors (32kB). If the total size then is not a multiple of 16 sectors, the needed number of sectors is added. If the option -B is used, then there is a second padding at the end of the boot partitions.

    The padding is neded as many operating systems (e.g. Linux) implement read ahead bugs in their filesystem I/O. These bugs result in read errors on one or more files that are located at the end of a track. They are usually present when the CD is written in Track at Once mode or when the disk is written as mixed mode CD where an audio track follows the data track.

-path-list file
    A file containing a list of pathspec directories and filenames to be added to the ISO9660 filesystem. This list of pathspecs are processed after any that appear on the command line. If the argument is -, then the list is read from the standard input. There must be at least one pathspec given on the command line as well.

-P publisher_id
    Specifies a text string that will be written into the volume header. This should describe the publisher of the CDROM, usually with a mailing address and phone number. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with PUBL=. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-p preparer_id
    Specifies a text string that will be written into the volume header. This should describe the preparer of the CDROM, usually with a mailing address and phone number. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with PREP=. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-print-size
    Print estimated filesystem size and exit. This option is needed for Disk At Once mode and with some CD-R drives when piping directly into cdrecord. In this case it is needed to know the size of the filesystem before the actual CD-creation is done. The option -print-size allows to get this size from a "dry-run" before the CD is actually written.

-quiet
    This makes mkisofs even less verbose. No progress output will be provided.

-R  Generate SUSP and RR records using the Rock Ridge protocol to further describe the files on the iso9660 filesystem.

-r  This is like the -R option, but file ownership and modes are set to more useful values. The uid and gid are set to zero, because they are usually only useful on the author's system, and not useful to the client. All the file read bits are set true, so that files and directories are globally readable on the client. If any execute bit is set for a file, set all of the execute bits, so that executables are globally executable on the client. If any search bit is set for a directory, set all of the search bits, so that directories are globally searchable on the client. All write bits are cleared, because the CD-Rom will be mounted read-only in any case. If any of the special mode bits are set, clear them, because file locks are not useful on a read-only file system, and set-id bits are not desirable for uid 0 or gid 0. When used on Win32, the execute bit is set on all files. This is a result of the lack of file permissions on Win32 and the Cygwin POSIX emulation layer.

-relaxed-filenames
    The option -relaxed-filenames allows ISO9660 filenames to include digits, uppercase characters and all other 7 bit ASCII characters (resp. anything except lowercase characters).
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-sort sort file
    Sort file locations on the media. Sorting is controlled by a file that contains pairs of filenames and sorting offset weighting. If the weighting is higher, the file will be located closer to the beginning of the media, if the weighting is lower, the file will be located closer to the end of the media.

-sysid ID
    Specifies the system ID. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with SYSI=system_id. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-T  Generate a file TRANS.TBL in each directory on the CDROM, which can be used on non-Rock Ridge capable systems to help establish the correct file names. There is also information present in the file that indicates the major and minor numbers for block and character devices, and each symlink has the name of the link file given.

-table-name TABLE_NAME
    Alternative translation table file name (see above). Implies the -T option. If you are creating a multi-session image you must use the same name as in the previous session.

-ucs-level level
    Set Unicode conformance level in the Joliet SVD. The default level is 3. It may be set to 1..3 using this option.

-use-fileversion
    The option -use-fileversion allows mkisofs to use file version numbers from the filesystem. If the option is not specified, mkisofs creates a version if 1 for all files. File versions are strings in the range ;1 to ;32767 This option is the default on VMS.

-U  Allows "Untranslated" filenames, completely violating the iso9660 standards described above. Forces on the -d, -l, -L, -N and -no-iso-translate flags, and also allows more than one '.' character in the filename, as well as mixed case filenames. This is useful on HP-UX system, where the built-in CDFS filesystem does not recognize ANY extensions. Use with extreme caution.

-no-iso-translate
    Do not translate the characters '#' and '~' which are invalid for iso9660 filenames. These characters are though invalid often used by Microsoft systems.
    This violates the ISO9660 standard, but it happens to work on many systems. Use with caution.

-V volid
    Specifies the volume ID (volume name or label) to be written into the master block. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with VOLI=id. If specified in both places, the command line version is used. Note that if you assign a volume ID, this is the name that will be used as the mount point used by the Solaris volume management system and the name that is assigned to the disc on a Windows or Mac platform.

-volset ID
    Specifies the volset ID. This parameter can also be set in the file .mkisofsrc with VOLS=volset_id. If specified in both places, the command line version is used.

-volset-size #
    Sets the volume set size to #. The volume set size is the number of CD's that are in a CD set. The -volset-size option may be used to create CD's that are part of e.g. a Operation System installation set of CD's. The option -volset-size must be specified before -volset-seqno on each command line.

-volset-seqno #
    Sets the volume set sequence number to #. The volume set sequence number is the index number of the current CD in a CD set. The option -volset-size must be specified before -volset-seqno on each command line.

-v  Verbose execution. If given twice on the command line, extra debug information will be printed.

-x path
    Exclude path from being written to CDROM. path must be the complete pathname that results from concatenating the pathname given as command line argument and the path relative to this directory. Multiple paths may be excluded. Example: mkisofs -o cd -x /local/dir1 -x /local/dir2 /local

    NOTE: The -m and -x option description should both be updated, they are wrong. Both now work identical and use filename globbing. A file is excluded if either the last component matches or the whole path matches.

-z  Generate special SUSP records for transparently compressed files. This is only of use and interest for hosts that support transparent decompression. This is an experimental feature, and no hosts yet support this, but there are ALPHA patches for Linux that can make use of this feature.

BOOT INFORMATION TABLE
When the -boot-info-table option is given, mkisofs will modify the boot file specified by the -b option by inserting a 56-byte "boot information table" at offset 8 in the file. This modification is done in the source filesystem, so make sure you use a copy if this file is not easily recreated! This file contains pointers which may not be easily or reliably obtained at boot time.

The format of this table is as follows; all integers are in section 7.3.1 ("little endian") format.

    Offset	Name	Size	Meaning
     8	bi_pvd	4 bytes	LBA of primary volume descriptor
    12	bi_file	4 bytes	LBA of boot file
    16	bi_length	4 bytes	Boot file length in bytes
    20	bi_csum	4 bytes	32-bit checksum
    24	bi_reserved	40 bytes	Reserved

The 32-bit checksum is the sum of all the 32-bit words in the boot file starting at byte offset 64. All linear block addresses (LBAs) are given in CD sectors (normally 2048 bytes).

CONFIGURATION
mkisofs looks for the .mkisofsrc file, first in the current working directory, then in the user's home directory, and then in the directory in which the mkisofs binary is stored. This file is assumed to contain a series of lines of the form TAG=value, and in this way you can specify certain options. The case of the tag is not significant. Some fields in the volume header are not settable on the command line, but can be altered through this facility. Comments may be placed in this file, using lines which start with a hash (#) character.

APPI
    The application identifier should describe the application that will be on the disc. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. May be overridden using the -A command line option.

COPY
    The copyright information, often the name of a file on the disc containing the copyright notice. There is space in the disc for 37 characters of information. May be overridden using the -copyright command line option.

ABST
    The abstract information, often the name of a file on the disc containing an abstract. There is space in the disc for 37 characters of information. May be overridden using the -abstract command line option.

BIBL
    The bibliographic information, often the name of a file on the disc containing a bibliography. There is space in the disc for 37 characters of information. May be overridden using the -bilio command line option.

PREP
    This should describe the preparer of the CDROM, usually with a mailing address and phone number. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. May be overridden using the -p command line option.

PUBL
    This should describe the publisher of the CDROM, usually with a mailing address and phone number. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. May be overridden using the -P command line option.

SYSI
    The System Identifier. There is space on the disc for 32 characters of information. May be overridden using the -sysid command line option.

VOLI
    The Volume Identifier. There is space on the disc for 32 characters of information. May be overridden using the -V command line option.

VOLS
    The Volume Set Name. There is space on the disc for 128 characters of information. May be overridden using the -volset command line option.

mkisofs can also be configured at compile time with defaults for many of these fields. See the file defaults.h.

AUTHOR
mkisofs is not based on the standard mk*fs tools for unix, because we must generate a complete copy of an existing filesystem on a disk in the iso9660 filesystem. The name mkisofs is probably a bit of a misnomer, since it not only creates the filesystem, but it also populates it as well.

Eric Youngdale <ericy@gnu.ai.mit.edu> or <eric@andante.org> wrote both the Linux isofs9660 filesystem and the mkisofs utility. The copyright for the mkisofs utility is held by Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated.

NOTES
Mkisofs may safely be installed suid root. This may be needed to allow mkisofs to read the previous session when creating a multi session image.

BUGS

•   Any files that have hard links to files not in the tree being copied to the iso9660 filesystem will have an incorrect file reference count.

•   Does not check for SUSP record(s) in "." entry of the root directory to verify the existence of Rock Ridge enhancements.

    This problem is present when reading old sessions while adding data in multi-session mode.

•   Does not properly read relocated directories in multi-session mode when adding data.

    Any relocated deep directory is lost if the new session does not include the deep directory.

    Repeat by: create first session with deep directory relocation then add new session with a single dir that differs from the old deep path.

•   Does not re-use RR_MOVED when doing multi-session from TRANS.TBL

•   Does not create whole_name entry for RR_MOVED in multi-session mode.

There may be some other ones. Please, report them to the author.

FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Some sort of gui interface.

AVAILABILITY
mkisofs is available as part of the cdrecord package from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/

MAILING LISTS
If you want to actively take part on the development of mkisofs, you may join the cdwriting mailing list by sending mail to:

	other-cdwrite-request@lists.debian.org

and include the word subscribe in the body. The mail address of the list is:

	cdwrite@lists.debian.org

MAINTAINER
Joerg Schilling
Seestr. 110
D-13353 Berlin
Germany

Mail bugs and suggestions to:

schilling@fokus.gmd.de or js@cs.tu-berlin.de or joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de