NTFS to ISO9660 under Linux · 3 April 2006 by
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.
