Re: genisoimage and files truncating

On 30 April 2012 18:56, sharon kimble <[email protected]> wrote:
> i am using genisoimage on this folder ...../home/boztu/Music/Irish Celtic
> Music Collection Version 2 .... which contains 2976 mp3s, but it is truncating
> the file names after the first word of their title. It appears to be doing this
> at the first space that it encounters, so I'm hoping someone can help me by
> suggesting a script that I can run that will remove all spaces in the file
> names, before .mp3, to enable genisoimage to run properly. The iso it creates
> is 18.9gbs in size and I then run split to make it into 4gb sized files to be
> burnt to dvds.
>
> Can you help me please?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.

What do you want to achieve?

genisoimage seems quite a complicated beast, there are graphic tools
that do most of the heavy lifting of providing the correct parameters
for you when creating data DVDs ensuring names are preserved correctly
(brasero or K3b just to name a couple).
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