1XORRISOFS(1) General Commands Manual XORRISOFS(1)
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6 xorrisofs - Emulation of ISO 9660 program mkisofs by program xorriso
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9 xorrisofs [ options ] [-o filename ] pathspec [pathspecs ...]
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12 xorrisofs produces Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and add-on
13 sessions to such filesystems. Optionally it can produce Joliet
14 directory trees too.
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16 xorrisofs understands options of program mkisofs from cdrtools by Joerg
17 Schilling. Its implementation is part of program xorriso which shares
18 no source code with cdrtools.
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20 ISO 9660, Rock Ridge, Joliet:
21 ISO 9660 (aka ECMA-119) is a read-only filesystem that is mainly used
22 for optical media CD, DVD, BD, but may also reside on other storage
23 devices like disk files, USB sticks or disk partitions. It is widely
24 readable by many operating systems and by boot facilities of personal
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26 ISO 9660 describes directories and data files by very restricted
27 filenames with no distinction of upper case and lower case. Its
28 metadata do not comply to fundamental POSIX specifications.
29 Rock Ridge is the name of a set of additional information which enhance
30 an ISO 9660 filesystem so that it can represent a POSIX compliant
31 filesystem with ownership, access permissions, symbolic links, and
32 other attributes. Rock Ridge allows filenames of up to 255 bytes and
33 paths of up to 1024 bytes.
34 Rock Ridge information is produced unconditionally with any xorrisofs
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36 Joliet is the name of an additional directory tree which provides
37 filenames up to 64 characters encoded as UTF-16. A Joliet tree is
38 mainly interesting for reading the ISO image by operating systems of
39 Microsoft Corporation. Production of this directory tree may be
40 enabled by option -J.
41 ISO 9660:1999 is the name of an additional directory tree which
42 provides longer filenames. It allows single file names to have up to
43 207 characters. It might be of use with some older computer system
44 boot facilities which read neither Rock Ridge nor Joliet but need
45 longer filenames nevertheless. Production of this directory tree may
46 be enabled by option -iso-level 4.
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48 Inserting files into the ISO image:
49 xorrisofs deals with two kinds of file addresses:
50 disk_path is a path to an object in the local filesystem tree.
51 iso_rr_path is the Rock Ridge address of a file object in the ISO
52 image. (Do not confuse with the lowlevel ISO 9660 names visible if Rock
53 Ridge gets ignored.)
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55 A program argument is handled as a pathspec, if it is not recognized as
56 original mkisofs option or additional xorrisofs option. A pathspec
57 depicts an input file object by a disk_path. If option -graft-points
58 is not present, then the behavior depends on the file type of
59 disk_path. Directories get merged with the /-directory of the ISO
60 image. Files of other types get copied into the /-directory.
61 If -graft-points is present then each pathspec gets split at the first
62 occurence of the =-character. The part before the = is taken as
63 target, i.e. the iso_rr_path for the file object in the ISO image. The
64 part after the first = is taken as source, i.e. the disk_path of the
65 input object.
66 It is possible to make =-characters part of the iso_rr_path by
67 preceding them with a \-character. The same must be done for
68 \-characters which shall be part of the iso_rr_path.
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70 If the source part of the pathspec leads to a directory, then all files
71 underneath this directory get inserted into the image, too. It is
72 possible to exclude particular files from being inserted by help of
73 option -m.
74 In case that target already exists, the following rules apply:
75 Directories and other files may overwrite existing non-directories.
76 Directories get merged with existing directories. Non-directories may
77 not overwrite existing directories.
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79 Relation to program xorriso:
80 xorrisofs is actually a command mode of program xorriso, which gets
81 entered either by xorriso command "-as mkisofs" or by starting the
82 program by one of the names "xorrisofs", "mkisofs", "genisoimage", or
83 "genisofs".
84 This command mode can be left by argument "--" which leads to generic
85 xorriso command mode. See man xorriso for its description.
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87 xorriso performs image reading and writing by help of libburn, which is
88 mainly intended for optical drives, but also operates on all POSIX file
89 types except directories.
90 The program messages call any image file a "drive". File types which
91 are not supported for reading are reported as "blank". The reported
92 free media space may be quite fictional.
93 Nevertheless xorrisofs does not operate directly on optical drives, but
94 rather forces libburn to regard them as general device files. So for
95 writing of sequential optical media (CD, DVD-R, DVD+R, BD-R) one will
96 have to use a burn program. E.g the cdrecord emulation of xorriso. See
97 EXAMPLES.
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101 Image loading:
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103 The following options control loading of an existing ISO image for the
104 purpose of preparing a suitable add-on session. If they are missing
105 then a new image is composed from scratch.
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107 -M disk_path
108 Set the path from which to load the existing ISO image directory
109 tree on which to base the upcomming directory tree as add-on
110 session. The path must lead to a random-access readable file
111 object. On GNU/Linux: regular data files or block device files.
112 A special kind of pseudo disk_path has the form
113 "/dev/fd/"number. It depicts the open file descriptor with the
114 given number, regardless whether the operating system supports
115 this feature by file nodes in /dev/fd or not. E.g. /dev/fd/3 is
116 file descriptor 3 which was opened by the program that later
117 started xorriso.
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119 -prev-session disk_path
120 Alias of -M.
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122 -dev disk_path
123 Alias of -M.
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125 -C last_session_start,next_writeable_address
126 Set the 2 KiB block address last_session_start from where to
127 read the ISO image out of the file given by option -M.
128 Separated by a comma, set the next_writeable_address to which
129 the add-on session will finally be written. Decisive is actually
130 the block address which the intended readers will have to use as
131 superblock address on the intended medium.
132 Both values can be inquired from optical media by help of burn
133 programs and cdrecord option -msinfo. xorriso itself can obtain
134 it in its cdrecord emulation. Do not let it load the drive, but
135 rather do this manually or by a program like dd which reads a
136 few bytes. Only then it is sure that the device driver knows the
137 true readable size of the medium.
138 dd if=/dev/... count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
139 values=$(xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/... -msinfo)
140 echo $values
141 Option -C may be used without option -M to create an ISO image
142 from scratch and prepare it for being finally written to a block
143 address other than 0. Parameter last_session_start must then be
144 set to 0.
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146 -cdrecord-params last_session_start,next_writeable_address
147 Alias of -C.
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149 Settings for file insertion:
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151 -path-list disk_path
152 Read pathspecs line-by-line from disk_file and insert the
153 depicted file objects into the ISO image. If disk_path is "-"
154 then read the pathspecs from standard input.
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156 --quoted_path_list disk_path
157 Like option -path-list but reading quoted words rather than
158 plain lines. Whitespace outside of quotes will be discarded. On
159 the other hand it is possible to represent pathspecs which
160 contain newline characters.
161 The double quotation mark " and the single quotation mark ' can
162 be used to enclose whitespace and make it part of pathspecs.
163 Each mark type can enclose the marks of the other type. A
164 trailing backslash \ outside quotations or an open quotation
165 cause the next input line to be appended.
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167 -f
168 Resolve symbolic links on disk rather than storing them as
169 symbolic links in the ISO image.
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171 -follow-links
172 Alias of -f.
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174 -graft-points
175 Enable interpretation of input file pathspecs as combination of
176 iso_rr_path and disk_path, separated by a =-character.
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178 -m disk_pattern
179 Exclude files from being inserted into the image. Silently
180 ignored are those files of which the disk_path matches the given
181 shell parser pattern. If no /-character is part of the pattern,
182 then it gets matched against the leaf name of the disk file.
183 It is possible to give more than one -m option.
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185 -exclude
186 Alias of -m.
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188 -x
189 Alias of -m.
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191 -old-exclude
192 Alias of -m.
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194 -exclude-list disk_path
195 Perform -m using each line out of file disk_path as argument
196 disk_pattern.
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198 -z
199 Enable recognition and proper processing of zisofs compressed
200 files as produced by program mkzftree. These files will get
201 equipped with the necessary meta data so that a Linux kernel
202 will recognize them and deliver their content in uncompressed
203 form.
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205 -transparent-compression
206 Alias of -z.
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208 -root iso_rr_path
209 Insert all files under the given iso_rr_path. If option
210 -graft-points is given, then iso_rr_path is prepended to each
211 target part of a pathspec.
212 The default for -root is "/".
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214 -old-root iso_rr_path
215 Enable incremental insertion of files into the loaded image.
216 The effective target and source addresses of given pathspecs get
217 compared whether the target already exists in the ISO image and
218 is still identical to the source on disk. Metadata in the ISO
219 image will get adjusted, if they differ from those on disk. New
220 files and files with changed content will get newly added.
221 Target files which do not exist in any of the according pathspec
222 sources will get removed from the ISO directory tree.
223 If the effective setting of -root differs from the iso_rr_path
224 given with -old-root, then the files underneath the -old-root
225 directory get cloned underneath the -root directory. Cloning
226 happens before file comparison.
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228 --old-root-no-ino
229 Disable recording and use of disk inode numbers. If no disk
230 inode numbers are recorded, then option -old-root will have to
231 read disk file content and compare it with the MD5 checksum that
232 is recorded in the ISO image.
233 With recorded disk inode numbers and with credible ctime and
234 mtime, it is possible to detect potential changes in the content
235 without actually reading it. A loophole remains if multiple
236 different filesystems may get mounted at the same directory,
237 like it is habit with /mnt. In this case one has to use option
238 --old-root-devno or disable the inode number shortcut by
239 --old-root-no-ino.
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241 --old-root-devno
242 Enable comparison of recorded device numbers together with
243 recorded inode numbers. This works only with good old stable
244 device numbers which get out of fashion, regrettably. If the
245 hard disk has a different device number after each reboot, then
246 this comparison will see all files as changed and thus prevent
247 any incremental size saving.
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249 --old-root-no-md5
250 Disable recording and use of MD5 checksums for data file
251 content. If neither checksums and nor disk inode numbers are
252 recorded, then option -old-root will have to read ISO image file
253 content when comparing it with disk file content.
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255 Settings for image production:
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257 -o disk_path
258 Set the output file address for the emerging ISO image. If the
259 address exists as regular file, it will be truncated to length 0
260 when image production begins. It may not already exist as
261 directory. If it does not exist yet then its parent directory
262 must exist and a regular file will get created.
263 A special kind of pseudo disk_path has the form
264 "/dev/fd/"number. It depicts the open file descriptor with the
265 given number, regardless whether the operating system supports
266 this feature by file nodes in /dev/fd or not. E.g. /dev/fd/4 is
267 file descriptor 4 which was opened by the program that later
268 started xorriso.
269 Default is standard output (/dev/fd/1) which may also be set by
270 disk_path "-".
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272 -output disk_path
273 Alias of -o.
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275 --stdio_sync "on"|"off"|number
276 Set the number of bytes after which to force output to disk in
277 order to keep the memory from being clogged with lots of pending
278 data for slow devices. Default "on" is the same as "16m".
279 Forced output can be disabled by "off".
280 xorriso uses an inner fifo buffer with default size 4 MiB. So
281 forcing the operating system i/o cache to disk does not
282 necessarily block the simultaneous production of more image
283 content.
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285 --emul-toc
286 Write a second superblock with the first session into
287 random-access files. If further sessions get appended and the
288 first superblock gets updated, then the second superblock will
289 not be overwritten. This allows to still mount the first session
290 and to find the start blocks of the further sessions.
291 The price is 64 KiB extra space consumption. If
292 -partition_offset is non-zero, then it is 128 KiB plus twice the
293 partition setup.
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295 --no-emul-toc
296 Do not write a second superblock with the first session into
297 random-access files.
298 This is the default.
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300 --sort-weight weight_number iso_rr_path
301 Attribute a LBA weight number to regular files. If iso_rr_path
302 leads to a directory then all regular files underneath will get
303 the weight_number.
304 The weight_number may range from -2147483648 to 2147483647. The
305 higher it is, the lower will be the block address of the file
306 data in the emerging ISO image. Currently the El Torito boot
307 catalog has a hardcoded weight of 1 billion. Normally it should
308 occupy the block with the lowest possible address. Data files
309 get added or loaded with initial weight 0.
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311 -dir-mode mode
312 Set the access permissions for all directories in the image to
313 the given mode which is either an octal number beginning with
314 "0" or a comma separated list of statements of the form
315 [ugoa]*[+-=][rwxst]* . E.g. ug=rx,a-rwx
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317 -file-mode mode
318 Like -dir-mode but for all regular data files in the image.
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320 -pad
321 Add 300 KiB to the end of the produced ISO image. This
322 circumvents possible read errors from ISO images which have been
323 written to CD media in TAO mode. The additional bytes are
324 claimed as part of the ISO image if not --emul-toc is given.
325 Option -pad is the default.
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327 -no-pad
328 Disable padding of 300 KiB to the end of the produced ISO image.
329 This is safe if the image is not meant to be written on CD or if
330 it gets written to CD as only track in write mode SAO.
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332 --old-empty
333 Use the old way of of giving block addresses in the range of
334 [0,31] to files with no own data content. The new way is to have
335 a dedicated block to which all such files will point.
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337 Settings for standards compliance:
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339 -iso-level number
340 Specify the ISO 9660 version which defines the limitations of
341 file naming and data file size. The naming restrictions do not
342 apply to the Rock Ridge names but only to the low-level ISO 9660
343 names. There are three conformance levels:
344 Level 1 allows ISO names of the form 8.3 and file size up to 4
345 GiB - 1.
346 Level 2 allows ISO names with up to 32 characters and file size
347 up to 4 GiB - 1.
348 Level 3 allows ISO names with up to 32 characters and file size
349 of up to 400 GiB - 200 KiB. (This size limitation is set by the
350 xorriso implementation and not by ISO 9660 which would allow
351 nearly 8 TiB.)
352 Pseudo-level 4 enables production of an additional ISO 9660:1999
353 directory tree.
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355 -disallow_dir_id_ext
356 Do not follow a bad habit of mkisofs which allows dots in the
357 ISO names of directories. On the other hand, some bootable
358 GNU/Linux images depend on this bad habit.
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360 -U
361 This option allows ISO file names without dot and up to 37
362 characters, ISO file paths longer than 255 characters, and all
363 ASCII characters in file names. Further it omits the semicolon
364 and the version numbers at the end of ISO names.
365 This all violates ISO 9660 specs.
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367 -untranslated-filenames
368 Alias of -U.
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370 -untranslated_name_len number
371 Allow ISO file names up to the given number of characters
372 without any character conversion. The maximum number is 96. If
373 a file name has more characters, then image production will fail
374 deliberately.
375 This violates ISO 9660 specs.
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377 -allow-lowercase
378 Allow lowercase character in ISO file names.
379 This violates ISO 9660 specs.
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381 -d
382 Do not add trailing dot to ISO file names without dot.
383 This violates ISO 9660 specs.
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385 -omit-period
386 Alias of -d.
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388 -l
389 Allow up to 37 characters in ISO file names.
390 This violates ISO 9660 specs.
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392 -full-iso9660-filenames
393 Alias of -l.
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395 -max-iso9660-filenames
396 Alias of -l.
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398 -N
399 Omit the semicolon and the version numbers at the end of ISO
400 names.
401 This violates ISO 9660 specs.
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403 -omit-version-number
404 Alias of -N.
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406 Settings for standards extensions:
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408 -R
409 With mkisofs this option enables Rock Ridge extensions.
410 xorrisofs produces them unconditionally.
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412 -rock
413 Alias of -R.
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415 -r
416 Set Rock Ridge user and group id of all files in the ISO image
417 to 0. Grant r-permissions to all. Deny all w-permissions. If
418 any x-permission is set, grant x-permission to all. Remove
419 s-bit and t-bit.
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421 -rational-rock
422 Alias of -r.
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424 --for_backup
425 Enable options which improve backup fidelity: --acl, --xattr,
426 --md5, --hardlinks.
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428 --acl
429 Enable recording and loading of ACLs from GNU/Linux or FreeBSD
430 (see man getfacl, man acl). They will not be in effect with
431 mounted ISO images. But xorriso can restore them on the same
432 systems when extracting files from the ISO image.
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434 --xattr
435 Enable recording and loading of GNU/Linux or FreeBSD extended
436 attributes in user namespace (see man getfattr, man attr, resp.
437 man getextattr, man 9 extattr). They will not be in effect with
438 mounted ISO images. But xorriso can restore them on the same
439 systems when extracting files from the ISO image.
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441 --md5
442 Enable recording of MD5 checksums for the overall ISO image and
443 for each single data file in the image. xorriso can check the
444 content of an ISO image with these sums and raise alert on
445 mismatch. See man xorriso, options -check_media, check_md5_r.
446 xorriso can print recorded MD5 checksums. E.g. by:
447 -find / -exec get_md5
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449 --hardlinks
450 Enable loading and recording of hardlink relations. Search for
451 families of iso_rr files which stem from the same disk file,
452 have identical content filtering and have identical properties.
453 The members of each family get the same inode number in the ISO
454 image.
455 Whether these numbers are respected at mount time depends on the
456 operating system. xorriso can create hardlink families when
457 extracting files from the ISO image.
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459 --scdbackup_tag disk_path record_name
460 Append a scdbackup checksum record to the image. This works only
461 if the parameter next_writeable_address of option -C is 0. If
462 disk_path is not an empty string, then append a scdbackup
463 checksum record to the end of this file. record_name is a word
464 that gets part of tag and record.
465 Program scdbackup_verify will recognize and verify tag resp.
466 record.
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468 -J
469 Enable the production of an additional Joliet directory tree
470 along with the ISO 9660 Rock Ridge tree.
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472 -joliet
473 Alias of -J.
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475 -joliet-long
476 Allow 103 characters in Joliet file names rather than 64 as is
477 prescribed by the specification. Allow Joliet paths longer than
478 the prescribed limit of 240 characters.
479 Oversized names get truncated. Without this option, oversized
480 paths get excluded from the Joliet tree.
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482 Settings for file hiding:
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484 -hide disk_path_pattern
485 Make files invisible in the directory tree of ISO 9660 and Rock
486 Ridge, if their disk_path matches the given shell parser
487 pattern. The data content of such hidden files will be included
488 in the resulting image, even if they do not show up in any
489 directory. But you will need own means to find nameless data in
490 the image.
491 This command does not apply to the boot catalog.
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493 -hide-list disk_path
494 Perform -hide using each line out of file disk_path as argument
495 disk_path_pattern.
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497 -hide-joliet disk_path_pattern
498 Like option -hide but making files invisible in the directory
499 tree of Joliet, if their disk_path matches the given shell
500 parser pattern.
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502 -hide-joliet-list disk_path
503 Perform -hide-joliet using each line out of file disk_path as
504 argument disk_path_pattern.
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506 ISO image ID strings:
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508 The following strings and file addresses get stored in the Primary
509 Volume Descriptor of the ISO9660 image. The file addresses are ISO 9660
510 paths. These files should have iso_rr_paths which consist only of the
511 characters [A-Z0-9_] and exactly one dot which separates at most 8
512 characters from at most 3 characters.
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514 -V text
515 Set the Volume Id of the ISO image. xorriso accepts any text up
516 to 32 characters, but according to rarely obeyed specs stricter
517 rules apply:
518 Conformant are ASCII characters out of [A-Z0-9_]. Like:
519 "IMAGE_23"
520 Joliet allows 16 UCS-2 characters. Like: "Windows name"
521 Be aware that the volume id might get used automatically as name
522 of the mount point when the medium is inserted into a playful
523 computer system.
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525 -volid text
526 Alias of -V.
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528 -volset text
529 Set the Volume Set Id of the ISO image. Permissible are up to
530 128 characters.
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532 -p text
533 Set the Publisher Id of the ISO image. This may identify the
534 person or organisation who specified what shall be recorded.
535 Permissible are up to 128 characters.
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537 -publisher text
538 Alias of -p.
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540 -A text
541 Set the Application Id of the ISO image. This may identify the
542 specification of how the data are recorded. Permissible are up
543 to 128 characters.
544 The special text "@xorriso@" gets converted to the id string of
545 xorriso which is normally written as Preparer Id. It is a wrong
546 tradition to write the program id as Application Id.
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548 -appid text
549 Alias of -A.
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551 -sysid text
552 Set the System Id of the ISO image. This may identify the system
553 which can recognize and act upon the content of the System Area
554 in image blocks 0 to 15. Permissible are up to 32 characters.
555
556 -p text
557 Set the Preparer Id of the ISO image. This may identify the
558 person or other entity which controls the preparation of the
559 data which shall be recorded. Normally this should be the id of
560 xorriso and not of the person or program which operates xorriso.
561 Please avoid to change it. Permissible are up to 128
562 characters.
563 The special text "@xorriso@" gets converted to the id string of
564 xorriso which is default at program startup.
565
566 -preparer text
567 Alias of -p.
568
569 -abstract iso_path
570 Set the address of the Abstract File of the ISO image. This
571 should be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which
572 contains an abstract statement about the image content.
573 Permissible are up to 37 characters.
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575 -biblio iso_path
576 Set the address of the Biblio File of the ISO image. This should
577 be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which contains
578 bibliographic records. Permissible are up to 37 characters.
579
580 -copyright iso_path
581 Set the address of the Copyright File of the ISO image. This
582 should be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which
583 contains a copyright statement. Permissible are up to 37
584 characters.
585
586 --modification-date=YYYYMMDDhhmmsscc
587 Set a timestring that overrides ISO image creation and
588 modification timestamps literally. It must consist of 16
589 decimal digits which form YYYYMMDDhhmmsscc, with YYYY between
590 1970 and 2999. Time zone is GMT. It is supposed to match this
591 GRUB line:
592 search --fs-uuid --set YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss-cc
593 E.g. 2010040711405800 is 7 Apr 2010 11:40:58 (+0 centiseconds).
594
595 El Torito Bootable ISO images:
596
597 The precondition for a bootable ISO image is to have in the ISO image
598 the files of a boot loader. The boot facilities of computers get
599 directed to such files, which usually execute further program files
600 from the ISO image. xorrisofs can produce several kinds of boot block
601 or boot record, which become part of the ISO image, and get interpreted
602 by the according boot facility.
603
604 An El Torito boot record points the bootstrapping facility to a boot
605 catalog with one or more boot images, which are binary program files
606 stored in the ISO image. The content of the boot image files is not in
607 the scope of El Torito.
608 xorriso composes the boot catalog according to the boot image files
609 given and structured by options -b, -e, -el-torito-alt-boot, and
610 --efi-boot. Often it contains only one entry.
611 El Torito gets interpreted by boot facilities PC-BIOS and EFI. Most
612 bootable GNU/Linux CDs are equipped with ISOLINUX or GRUB boot images
613 for PC-BIOS.
614 xorrisofs supports the example options out of the ISOLINUX wiki, the
615 options used in GRUB script grub-mkrescue, and the example in the
616 FreeBSD AvgLiveCD wiki.
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618 For CD booting via boot facilities other than PC-BIOS and EFI, and for
619 booting from USB sticks or hard disks, see the next section about the
620 Sytem Area.
621
622 -b iso_rr_path
623 Specify the boot image file which shall be mentioned in the
624 current entry of the El Torito boot catalog. It will be marked
625 as suitable for PC-BIOS.
626 With boot images from ISOLINUX and GRUB this option should be
627 accompanied by options -c , -no-emul-boot , -boot-load-size 4 ,
628 -boot-info-table.
629
630 -eltorito-boot iso_rr_path
631 Alias of -b.
632
633 -eltorito-alt-boot
634 Finalize the current El Torito boot catalog entry and begin a
635 new one. A boot image file and all its necessary options shall
636 be specified before option -eltorito-alt-boot. All further El
637 Torito boot options apply to the new catalog entry. Up to 32
638 catalog entries are possible.
639
640 -e iso_rr_path
641 Specify the boot image file which shall be mentioned in the
642 current entry of the El Torito boot catalog. It will be marked
643 as suitable for EFI.
644 Normally no other El Torito options should be used with the
645 catalog entry that points to an EFI image. Consider to use
646 --efi-boot rather than -e.
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648 --efi-boot iso_rr_path
649 Perform -eltorito-alt-boot, option -e with the given
650 iso_rr_path, and again -eltorito-alt-boot. This gesture is used
651 for achieving EFI-bootability of the GRUB2 rescue CD.
652
653 -boot-load-size number
654 Set the number of 512-byte blocks for boot images which emulate
655 a floppy or a hard disk. A safe default for non-emulating boot
656 images is 4.
657
658 -hard-disk-boot
659 Mark the boot image in the current catalog entry as emulated
660 hard disk. (Not suitable for any known boot loader.)
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662 -no-emul-boot
663 Mark the boot image in the current catalog entry as not
664 emulating floppy or hard disk. (This is to be used with all
665 known boot loaders.)
666 If neither -hard-disk-boot nor -no-emul-boot is given, then the
667 boot image will be marked as emulating a floppy. (Not suitable
668 for any known boot loader.)
669
670 -boot-info-table
671 Overwrite certain bytes in the current boot image. The
672 information will be supplied by xorriso in the course of image
673 production: Block address of the Primary Volume Descriptor,
674 block address of the boot image file, size of the boot image
675 file.
676
677 -c iso_rr_path
678 Set the address of the El Torito boot catalog file within the
679 image. This file address is not significant for the booting
680 PC-BIOS or EFI, but it may later be read by other programs in
681 order to learn about the available boot images.
682
683 -eltorito-catalog iso_rr_path
684 Alias of -c.
685
686 --boot-catalog-hide
687 Prevent the El Torito boot catalog from appearing as file in the
688 directory trees of the image.
689
690 System Area, MBR, other boot blocks:
691
692 The first 16 blocks of an ISO image are the System Area. It is
693 reserved for system dependent boot software. This may be the CD boot
694 facilities of exotic hardware architectures or it may be a MBR for
695 booting via PC-BIOS from USB stick or hard disk.
696 A MBR (Master Boot Record) contains boot code and a partition table.
697 It does not hamper El Torito booting from CDROM.
698 xorrisofs supports boot facilities other than PC-BIOS: MIPS Big Endian
699 (SGI), MIPS Little Endian (DEC), SUN SPARC. Those are mutually not
700 combinable and also not combinable with MBR.
701
702 -G disk_path
703 Copy at most 32768 bytes from the given disk file to the very
704 start of the ISO image.
705 Other than a El Torito boot image, the file disk_path needs not
706 to be added to the ISO image. It will not show up as file in the
707 directory trees.
708
709 -generic-boot disk_path
710 Alias of -G.
711
712 --embedded-boot disk_path
713 Alias of -G.
714
715 -isohybrid-mbr disk_path
716 Install disk_path as ISOLINUX isohybrid MBR which makes the boot
717 image given by option -b bootable from USB sticks and hard disks
718 via PC-BIOS. This preparation is normally done by ISOLINUX
719 program isohybrid on the already produced ISO image.
720 The disk path should lead to one of the Syslinux files
721 isohdp[fp]x*.bin . The MBR gets patched according to isohybrid
722 needs. The first partition describes the range of the ISO image.
723 Its start is at block 0 by default, but may be set to 64 disk
724 blocks by option -partition_offset 16.
725
726 --protective-msdos-label
727 Patch the System Area by a simple PC-DOS partition table where
728 partition 1 claims the range of the ISO image but leaves the
729 first block unclaimed.
730
731 -partition_offset 2kb_block_adr
732 Cause a partition table with a single partition that begins at
733 the given block address. This is counted in 2048 byte blocks,
734 not in 512 byte blocks. If the block address is non-zero then it
735 must be at least 16. Values larger than 16 are hardly of use. A
736 non-zero partition offset causes two superblocks to be generated
737 and two sets of directory trees. The image is then mountable
738 from its absolute start as well as from the partition start.
739 The offset value of an ISO image gets preserved when a new
740 session is added to a loaded image. So the value defined here
741 is only in effect if a new ISO image gets written.
742
743 -partition_hd_cyl number
744 Set the number of heads per cylinder for the partition table. 0
745 chooses a default value. Maximum is 255.
746
747 -partition_sec_hd number
748 Set the number of sectors per head for the partition table. 0
749 chooses a default value. Maximum is 63.
750 The product partition_sec_hd * partition_hd_cyl * 512 is the
751 cylinder size. It should be divisible by 2048 in order to allow
752 exact alignment. If it is too small to describe the image size
753 by at most 1024 cylinders, then appropriate values of
754 partition_hd_cyl are chosen with partition_sec_hd 32 or 63. If
755 the image is larger than 8,422,686,720 bytes, then the cylinder
756 size constraints cannot be fulfilled. They seem not overly
757 important anyway. Flat block addresses in partition tables are
758 good for 1 TiB.
759
760 -partition_cyl_align mode
761 Control image size alignment to an integer number of cylinders.
762 It is prescribed by isohybrid specs and it seems to please
763 program fdisk. Cylinder size must be divisible by 2048. Images
764 larger than 8,323,596,288 bytes cannot be aligned.
765 Mode "auto" is default. Alignment by padding happens only if
766 option -isohybrid-mbr is given.
767 Mode "on" causes alignment by padding with option
768 --protective-msdos-label too. Mode "off" disables alignment
769 unconditionally.
770
771 -append_partition partition_number type_code disk_path
772 Cause a prepared filesystem image to be appended to the ISO
773 image and to be described by a partition table entry in a boot
774 block at the start of the emerging ISO image. The partition
775 entry will bear the size of the submitted file rounded up to the
776 next multiple of 2048 bytes.
777 Beware of subsequent multi-session runs. The appended partition
778 will get overwritten.
779 partition_number may be 1 to 4. Number 1 will put the whole ISO
780 image into the unclaimed space before partition 1. So together
781 with most xorriso MBR features, number 2 would be the most
782 natural choice.
783 The type_code may be "FAT12", "FAT16", "Linux", or a hexadecimal
784 number between 0x00 and 0xff. Not all those numbers will yield
785 usable results. For a list of codes search the Internet for
786 "Partition Types" or run fdisk command "L".
787
788 -mips-boot iso_rr_path
789 Declare a data file in the image to be a MIPS Big Endian boot
790 file and cause production of a MIPS Big Endian Volume Header.
791 This is mutually exclusive with production of other boot blocks
792 like MBR. It will overwrite the first 512 bytes of any data
793 provided by -G. Up to 15 boot files can be declared by multiple
794 -mips-boot options.
795
796 -mipsel-boot iso_rr_path
797 Declare a data file in the image to be the MIPS Little Endian
798 boot file. This is mutually exclusive with other boot blocks.
799 It will overwrite the first 512 bytes of any data provided by
800 -G. Only a single boot file can be declared by -mipsel-boot.
801
802 -B disk_path[,disk_path ...]
803 Cause one or more data files on disk to be written after the end
804 of the ISO image. A SUN Disk Label will be written into the
805 first 512 bytes of the ISO image which lists this image as
806 partition 1 and the given disk_paths as partition 2 up to 8.
807 The disk files should contain suitable boot images for SUN SPARC
808 systems.
809 The pseudo disk_path "..." causes that all empty partition
810 entries become copies of the last non-empty entry. If no other
811 disk_path is given before "..." then all partitions describe the
812 ISO image. In this case, the boot loader code has to be imported
813 by option -G.
814
815 -sparc-boot disk_path[,disk_path ...]
816 Alias of -B.
817
818 -sparc-label text
819 Set the ASCII label text of a SUN Disk Label.
820
821 Character sets:
822
823 Character sets should not matter as long as only english alphanumeric
824 characters are used for file names or as long as all writers and
825 readers of the medium use the same character set. Outside these
826 constraints it may be necessary to let xorriso convert byte codes.
827 A conversion from input character set to the output character set is
828 performed when an ISO image gets written. Vice versa there is a
829 conversion from output character set to the input character set when an
830 ISO image gets loaded. The sets can be defined by options
831 -input-charset and -output-charset, if needed.
832
833 -input-charset character_set_name
834 Set the character set from which to convert disk file names when
835 inserting them into the ISO image.
836
837 -output-charset character_set_name
838 Set the character set from which to convert names of loaded ISO
839 images and to which to convert names when writing ISO images.
840
841 Jigdo Template Extraction:
842
843 From man genisoimage: "Jigdo is a tool to help in the distribution of
844 large files like CD and DVD images; see http://atterer.net/jigdo/ for
845 more details. Debian CDs and DVD ISO images are published on the web in
846 jigdo format to allow end users to download them more efficiently."
847 If the use of libjte was enabled at compile time of xorriso, then
848 xorrisofs can produce a .jigdo and a .template file together with a
849 single-session ISO image. If not, then Jigdo options will cause a
850 FAILURE event, which normally leads to program abort.
851 One may determine the ability for Jigdo by:
852 $ xorrisofs -version 2>&1 | grep '^libjte' && echo YES
853
854 The .jigdo file contains checksums and symbolic file addresses. The
855 .template file contains the compressed ISO image with reference tags
856 instead of the content bytes of the listed files.
857 Input for this process are the normal arguments for a xorrisofs session
858 with no image loaded, and a .md5 file which lists those data files
859 which may be listed in the .jigdo file and externally referenced in the
860 .template file. Each designated file is represented in the .md5 file
861 by a single text line:
862 MD5 as 32 hex digits, 2 blanks, size as 12 decimal digits or blanks, 2
863 blanks, symbolic file address
864 The file address in an .md5 line has to bear the same basename as the
865 disk_path of the file which it shall match. The directory path of the
866 file address is decisive for To=From mapping, not for file recognition.
867 After To=From mapping, the file address gets written into the .jigdo
868 file. Jigdo restore tools will convert these addresses into really
869 reachable data source addresses from which they can read.
870 If the list of jigdo parameters is not empty, then padding will be
871 counted as part of the ISO image.
872
873 -jigdo-jigdo disk_path
874 Set the disk_path for the .jigdo file with the checksums and
875 download addresses for filling the holes in .template.
876
877 -jigdo-template disk_path
878 Set the disk_path for the .template file with the holed and
879 compressed ISO image copy.
880
881 -jigdo-min-file-size size
882 Set the minimum size for a data file to be listed in the .jigdo
883 file and being a hole in the .template file. size may be a
884 plain number counting bytes, or a number with appended letter
885 "k", "m", "g" to count KiB (1024 bytes), MiB (1024 KiB), or GiB
886 (1024 MiB).
887
888 -jigdo-force-md5 disk_path_pattern
889 adds a regular expression pattern which will get compared with
890 the absolute disk_path of any data file that was not found in
891 the .md5 list. A match causes a MISHAP event, which normally
892 does not abort the program run but finally causes a non-zero
893 exit value of the program.
894
895 -jigdo-exclude disk_path_pattern
896 Add a regular expression pattern which will get compared with
897 the absolute disk_path of any data file. A match causes the file
898 to stay in .template in any case.
899
900 -jigdo-map To=From
901 Add a string pair of the form To=From to the parameter list. If
902 a data file gets listed in the .jigdo file, then it is referred
903 by the file address from its line in the .md5 file. This file
904 address gets checked whether it begins with the From string. If
905 so, then this string will be replaced by the To string and a ':'
906 character, before it goes into the .jigdo file. The From string
907 should end by a '/' character.
908
909 -md5-list disk_path
910 Set the disk_path where to find the .md5 input file.
911
912 -jigdo-template-compress "gzip"|"bzip2"
913 Choose one of "bzip2" or "gzip" for the compression of the
914 template file. The jigdo file is put out uncompressed.
915
916 -checksum_algorithm_iso list_of_names
917 Choose one or more of "md5", "sha1", "sha256", "sha512" for the
918 auxiliary "# Image Hex" checksums in the .jigdo file. The
919 list_of_names may e.g. look like "md5,sha1,sha512". Value "all"
920 chooses all available algorithms. Note that MD5 stays always
921 enabled.
922
923 -checksum_algorithm_template list_of_names
924 Choose the algorithms for the "# Template Hex" checksums in the
925 .jigdo file. The rules for list_of_names are the same as with
926 -checksum_algorithm_iso.
927
928 Miscellaneous options:
929
930 -print-size
931 Print to stdandard output the foreseeable number of 2048 byte
932 blocks in the emerging ISO image. Do not produce this image.
933 The result depends on several settings.
934 If option --emul-toc is given, then padding (see -pad) is not
935 counted as part of the image size. In this case either use
936 -no-pad or add 150 (= 300 KiB) to the resulting number.
937
938 --no_rc
939 Only if used as first argument this option prevents reading and
940 interpretation of startup files. See section FILES below.
941
942 -help
943 List supported options to stderr. Original mkisofs options bear
944 their original mkisofs description texts.
945
946 -quiet
947 Suppress most messages of the program run, except those which
948 indicate problems or errors.
949
950 -v
951 Enable the output of informational program messages.
952
953 -verbose
954 Alias of -v.
955
956 -version
957 Print to standard output a text that begins with
958 "mkisofs 2.01-Emulation Copyright (C)"
959 and to standard error the version information of xorriso.
960
962 Overview of examples:
963 A simple image production run
964 Set ISO image paths by -graft-points
965 Perform multi-session runs
966 Let xorrisofs work underneath growisofs
967 Incremental backup of a few directory trees
968 Incremental backup with accumulated trees
969 Create bootable images for PC-BIOS
970
971 A simple image production run
972 A prepared file tree in directory ./for_iso gets copied into the root
973 directory of the ISO image. File permissions get set to read-only for
974 everybody. Joliet attributes for Microsoft systems get added. The
975 resulting image gets written as data file ./image.iso on disk.
976 $ xorrisofs -r -J -o ./image.iso ./for_iso
977
978 Set ISO image paths by -graft-points
979 Without option -graft-points each given disk file is copied into the
980 root directory of the ISO image, maintaining its name. If a directory
981 is given, then its files and sub-directories are copied into the root
982 directory, maintaining their names.
983 $ xorrisofs ... /home/me/datafile /tmp/directory
984 yields in the ISO image root directory:
985 /datafile
986 /file_1_from_directory
987 ...
988 /file_N_from_directory
989
990 With option -graft-points it is possible to put files and directories
991 to arbitrary paths in the ISO image.
992 $ xorrisofs ... -graft-points /home/me/datafile /dir=/tmp/directory
993 yields in the ISO image root directory:
994 /datafile
995 /dir
996 Eventually needed parent directories in the image will be created
997 automatically:
998 /datafiles/file1=/home/me/datafile
999 yields in the ISO image:
1000 /datafiles/file1
1001 The attributes of directory /datafiles get copied from /home/me on
1002 disk.
1003
1004 Normally one should avoid = and \ characters in the ISO part of a
1005 pathspec. But if it must be, one may escape them:
1006 /with_\=_and_\\/file=/tmp/directory/file
1007 yields in the ISO image:
1008 /with_=_and_\/file
1009
1010 Perform multi-session runs
1011 This example works for multi-session media only: CD-R[W], DVD-R[W],
1012 DVD+R, BD-R. Add cdrskin option --grow_overwriteable_iso to all -as
1013 cdrecord runs in order to enable multi-session emulation on
1014 overwriteable media.
1015 The first session is written like this:
1016 $ xorrisofs -graft-points \
1017 /tree1=prepared_for_iso/tree1 \
1018 | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=fast -multi -eject -
1019 Follow-up sessions are written like this:
1020 $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
1021 $ m=$(xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -msinfo)
1022 $ xorrisofs -M /dev/sr0 -C $m -graft-points \
1023 /tree2=prepared_for_iso/tree2 \
1024 | xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 -waiti -multi -eject -
1025 Always eject the drive tray between sessions. The old sessions get read
1026 via /dev/sr0. Its device driver might not be aware of the changed
1027 content before it loads the medium again. In this case the previous
1028 session would not be loaded and the new session would contain only the
1029 newly added files.
1030 For the same reason do not let xorriso -as cdrecord load the medium,
1031 but rather do this manually or by a program that reads from /dev/sr0.
1032
1033 Let xorrisofs work underneath growisofs
1034 growisofs expects an ISO formatter program which understands options -C
1035 and -M. A variable is defined to override the hardcoded default name.
1036 $ export MKISOFS="xorrisofs"
1037 $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd /some/files
1038 $ growisofs -M /dev/dvd /more/files
1039 If no "xorrisofs" is available on your system, then you will have to
1040 create a link pointing to the xorriso binary and tell growisofs to use
1041 it. E.g. by:
1042 $ ln -s $(which xorriso) "$HOME/xorrisofs"
1043 $ export MKISOFS="$HOME/xorrisofs"
1044 One may quit mkisofs emulation by argument "--" and make use of all
1045 xorriso commands. growisofs dislikes options which start with "-o" but
1046 -outdev must be set to "-". So use "outdev" instead:
1047 $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd --for_backup -- \
1048 outdev - -update_r /my/files /files
1049 $ growisofs -M /dev/dvd --for_backup -- \
1050 outdev - -update_r /my/files /files
1051 Note that --for_backup is given in the mkisofs emulation. To preserve
1052 the recorded extra data it must already be in effect, when the
1053 emulation loads the image.
1054
1055 Incremental backup of a few directory trees
1056 This changes the directory trees /open_source_project and
1057 /personal_mail in the ISO image so that they become exact copies of
1058 their disk counterparts. ISO file objects get created, deleted or get
1059 their attributes adjusted accordingly.
1060 ACL, xattr, hard links and MD5 checksums will be recorded. It is
1061 expected that inode numbers in the disk filesystem are persistent over
1062 cycles of mounting and booting. Files with names matching *.o or *.swp
1063 get excluded explicitly.
1064
1065 To be used several times on the same medium, whenever an update of the
1066 two disk trees to the medium is desired. Begin with a blank medium and
1067 update it until he run fails gracefully due to lack of remaining space
1068 on the old one.
1069 Do not let xorriso -as cdrecord load the medium, but rather do this
1070 manually or by a program that reads from /dev/sr0.
1071 $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
1072 $ msinfo=$(xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -msinfo)
1073 $ load_opts=
1074 $ test -n "$msinfo" && load_opts="-M /dev/sr0 -C $msinfo"
1075 $ xorrisofs $load_opts -o - --for_backup -m '*.o' -m '*.swp' \
1076 -V PROJ_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" -graft-points \
1077 -old-root / \
1078 /projects=/home/thomas/projects \
1079 /personal_mail=/home/thomas/personal_mail \
1080 | xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -v -multi -waiti -eject -
1081
1082 This makes sense if the full backup leaves substantial remaining
1083 capacity on media and if the expected changes are much smaller than the
1084 full backup.
1085
1086 Better do not use your youngest backup for -old-root. Have at least
1087 two media which you use alternatingly. So only older backups get
1088 endangered by the new write operation, while the newest backup is
1089 stored safely on a different medium.
1090 Always have a blank medium ready to perform a full backup in case the
1091 update attempt fails due to insufficient remaining capacity. This
1092 failure will not spoil the old medium, of course.
1093
1094 If inode numbers on disk are not persistent, then use option
1095 --old-root-no-ino . In this case an update run will compare recorded
1096 MD5 sums against the current file content on hard disk.
1097
1098 With mount option -o "sbsector=" on GNU/Linux resp. -s on FreeBSD it is
1099 possible to access the session trees which represent the older backup
1100 versions. With CD media, GNU/Linux mount accepts session numbers
1101 directly by its option "session=".
1102 Multi-session media and most overwriteable media written by xorriso can
1103 tell the sbsectors of their sessions by xorriso option -toc:
1104 $ xorriso -dev /dev/sr0 -toc
1105 xorriso can print the matching mount command for a session number:
1106 $ xorriso -mount_cmd /dev/sr0 session 12 /mnt
1107 or for a volume id that matches a search expression:
1108 $ xorriso -mount_cmd /dev/sr0 volid '*2008_12_05*' /mnt
1109 Both yield on standard output something like:
1110 mount -t iso9660 -o nodev,noexec,nosuid,ro,sbsector=1460256
1111 '/dev/sr0' '/mnt'
1112 The superuser may let xorriso execute the mount command directly:
1113 # osirrox -mount /dev/sr0 "volid" '*2008_12_05*' /mnt
1114
1115 Incremental backup with accumulated trees
1116 Solaris does not offer the option to mount older sessions. In order to
1117 keep them accessible, one may map all files to a file tree under a
1118 session directory and accumulate those directories from session to
1119 session. The -root tree is cloned from the -old-root tree before it
1120 gets compared with the appropriate trees on disk.
1121 This demands to know the previously used session directory name.
1122 With the first session:
1123 $ xorrisofs -root /session1 \
1124 -o - --for_backup -m '*.o' -m '*.swp' \
1125 -V PROJ_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" -graft-points \
1126 /projects=/home/thomas/projects \
1127 /personal_mail=/home/thomas/personal_mail \
1128 | xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -v blank=as_needed \
1129 -multi -waiti -eject -
1130
1131 With the second session, option -old-root refers to /session1 and the
1132 new -root is /session2.
1133 Do not let xorriso -as cdrecord load the medium, but rather do this
1134 manually or by a program that reads from /dev/sr0.
1135 $ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
1136 $ msinfo=$(xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -msinfo)
1137 $ load_opts=
1138 $ test -n "$msinfo" && load_opts="-M /dev/sr0 -C $msinfo"
1139 $ xorrisofs $load_opts -root /session2 -old-root /session1 \
1140 -o - --for_backup -m '*.o' -m '*.swp' \
1141 -V PROJ_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" -graft-points \
1142 /projects=/home/thomas/projects \
1143 /personal_mail=/home/thomas/personal_mail \
1144 | xorriso -as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -v -multi -waiti -eject -
1145 With the third session, option -old-root refers to /session2. The new
1146 -root is /session3. And so on.
1147
1148 Create bootable images for PC-BIOS
1149 The ISOLINUX wiki prescribes to create on disk a directory ./CD_root
1150 and to copy all desired files underneath that directory. Especially
1151 file isolinux.bin shall be copied to ./CD_root/isolinux/isolinux.bin .
1152 This is the boot image file.
1153 The prescribed mkisofs options can be used unchanged with xorrisofs:
1154 $ xorrisofs -o output.iso \
1155 -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
1156 -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
1157 ./CD_root
1158 Put it on CD by a burn program. E.g.:
1159 $ xorriso -as cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=as_needed output.iso
1160
1161 The image from above example will boot from CD, DVD or BD, but not from
1162 USB stick or other hard-disk-like devices. This can be done by help of
1163 an isohybrid MBR. Syslinux provides matching template files as
1164 isohdp[fp]x*.bin . E.g. /usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin .
1165 If a few hundred KB of size do not matter, then option
1166 -partition_offset can be used to create a partition table where
1167 partition 1 starts not at block 0. This facilitates later manipulations
1168 of the USB stick by tools for partitioning and formatting.
1169 The image from the following example will be prepared for booting via
1170 MBR and its first parttion will start at hard disk block 64.
1171 It will also boot from optical media.
1172 $ xorrisofs -o output.iso \
1173 -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
1174 -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
1175 -isohybrid-mbr /usr/lib/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin \
1176 -partition_offset 16 \
1177 ./CD_root
1178 Become superuser and copy the image to the unpartitioned base device
1179 file of the USB stick. On GNU/Linux this is e.g. /dev/sdb, not
1180 /dev/sdb1.
1181 CAUTION: This will overwrite any partitioning on the USB stick and make
1182 remaining data unaccessible.
1183 So first make sure you got the correct address of the intended device.
1184 E.g. by reading 100 MiB data from it and watching it blinking:
1185 # dd bs=2K if=/dev/sdb count=50K >/dev/null
1186 Now copy the image onto it
1187 # dd bs=2K if=output.iso of=/dev/sdb
1188
1190 Startup files:
1191 If not --no_rc is given as the first argument then xorrisofs attempts
1192 on startup to read and execute lines from the following files:
1193 /etc/default/xorriso
1194 /etc/opt/xorriso/rc
1195 /etc/xorriso/xorriso.conf
1196 $HOME/.xorrisorc
1197 The files are read in the sequence given here, but none of them is
1198 required to exist. The lines are not interpreted as xorrisofs options
1199 but as generic xorriso commands. See man xorriso.
1200
1201 After the xorriso startup files, the program tries one by one to open
1202 for reading:
1203 ./.mkisofsrc
1204 $MKISOFSRC
1205 $HOME/.mkisofsrc
1206 $(dirname $0)/.mkisofsrc
1207 On success it interprets the file content and does not try further
1208 files. The last address is used only if start argument 0 has a
1209 non-trivial dirname.
1210 The reader currently interprets the following NAME=VALUE pairs:
1211 APPI default for -A
1212 PUBL default for -publisher
1213 SYSI default for -sysid
1214 VOLI default for -V
1215 VOLS default for -volset
1216 Any other lines will be silently ignored.
1217
1219 For generic xorriso command mode
1220 xorriso(1)
1221
1222 For the cdrecord emulation of xorriso
1223 xorrecord(1)
1224
1225 For mounting xorriso generated ISO 9660 images (-t iso9660)
1226 mount(8)
1227
1228 Other programs which produce ISO 9660 images
1229 mkisofs(8), genisoimage(8)
1230
1231 Programs which burn sessions to optical media
1232 growisofs(1), cdrecord(1), wodim(1), cdrskin(1), xorriso(1)
1233
1234 ACL and xattr
1235 getfacl(1), setfacl(1), getfattr(1), setfattr(1)
1236
1237 MD5 checksums
1238 md5sum(1)
1239
1240 On FreeBSD the commands for xattr and MD5 differ
1241 getextattr(8), setextattr(8), md5(1)
1242
1244 To report bugs, request help, or suggest enhancements for xorriso,
1245 please send electronic mail to the public list <bug-xorriso@gnu.org>.
1246 If more privacy is desired, mail to <scdbackup@gmx.net>.
1247 Please describe what you expect xorriso to do, the program arguments
1248 resp. commands by which you tried to achieve it, the messages of
1249 xorriso, and the undesirable outcome of your program run.
1250 Expect to get asked more questions before solutions can be proposed.
1251
1253 Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
1254 for libburnia-project.org
1255
1257 Copyright (c) 2011 Thomas Schmitt
1258 Permission is granted to distribute this text freely. It shall only be
1259 modified in sync with the technical properties of xorriso. If you make
1260 use of the license to derive modified versions of xorriso then you are
1261 entitled to modify this text under that same license.
1262
1264 xorrisofs is in part based on work by Vreixo Formoso who provides
1265 libisofs together with Mario Danic who also leads the libburnia team.
1266 Compliments towards Joerg Schilling whose cdrtools served me for ten
1267 years.
1268
1269
1270
1271 Version 1.1.8, Nov 20, 2011 XORRISOFS(1)