From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 26 13:15:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc.ispro.net (c14pc21.dc.turkuamk.fi [193.166.135.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA83137B9CE for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@dc.ispro.net) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by dc.ispro.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA18658; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:14:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from yurtesen@dc.ispro.net) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:14:43 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Ben Smithurst , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why long filenames are gone ? In-Reply-To: <20000321171439.B21349@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an iso image of the disk. He did not copy any files to his hard drive! Just created a very big image file On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:11:53AM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > I think my friend made the iso image with a windows program. I just > > thought when you make the iso image you get an exact copy of the > > cdrom. Is not it so? > > Well, it depends on the way the files that are on the original disk are > copied. Most cdrom writing programs that I've seen on Windows *do* have > an option to do 'image copying' or something like that. > > If your friend has copied the "files" of the original disk on his disk > and then used his program to write the files on the disk produced, then > he quite probably messed up all the RockRidge information present in the > original disk :/ > > - Giorgos Keramidas > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message