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NTFS to ISO9660 under Linux

I had faced a problem when trying to make backup DVDs of an NTFS partition under Linux. The partition was using Hungarian characters, like the á.

After some search, I found the solution:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 -o nls=iso8859-2

While NTFS uses UTF16 (?) internally, it is easy to convert to other character sets.

The second job, making an ISO out of it was easy:

mkisofs -J—joliet-long -input-charset iso-8859-2 -r -o backup.iso /mnt/hdb1

A notable site explaining Unicode under Linux.

Appeared on 3 April 2006, 12:42 | Tags: , , | Add to del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, newsvine | View blog reactions

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