4894 lines
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4894 lines
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.TH XORRISO 1 "Version 1.2.3, Mai 02, 2012"
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.SH NAME
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xorriso \- creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images
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with Rock Ridge extensions.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B xorriso
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.RI [ settings | actions ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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\fBxorriso\fR
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is a program which copies file objects from POSIX compliant
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filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO 9660 filesystems and allows
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session\-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load the management
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information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to
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optical media or to filesystem objects.
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.br
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Vice versa \fBxorriso\fR is able to copy file objects out of ISO 9660
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filesystems.
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.PP
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A special property of \fBxorriso\fR is that it needs neither an external
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ISO 9660
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formatter program nor an external burn program for CD, DVD or BD but rather
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incorporates the libraries of libburnia\-project.org .
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.SS
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.B Overview of features:
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.br
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Operates on an existing ISO image or creates a new one.
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Copies files from disk filesystem into the ISO image.
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Copies files from ISO image to disk filesystem (see osirrox).
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Renames or deletes file objects in the ISO image.
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Changes file properties in the ISO image.
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Updates ISO subtrees incrementally to match given disk subtrees.
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.br
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Writes result either as completely new image or as add\-on session
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to optical media or filesystem objects.
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.br
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Can activate ISOLINUX and GRUB boot images via El Torito and MBR.
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.br
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Can perform multi\-session tasks as emulation of mkisofs and cdrecord.
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Can record and restore hard links and ACL.
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Content may get zisofs compressed or filtered by external processes.
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Can issue commands to mount older sessions on GNU/Linux or FreeBSD.
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.br
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Can check media for damages and copy readable blocks to disk.
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.br
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Can attach MD5 checksums to each data file and the whole session.
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.br
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Scans for optical drives, blanks re\-useable optical media.
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.br
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Reads its instructions from command line arguments, dialog, and files.
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.br
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Provides navigation commands for interactive ISO image manipulation.
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Adjustable thresholds for abort, exit value, and problem reporting.
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.SS
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.B General information paragraphs:
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Session model
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Media types and states
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Creating, Growing, Modifying, Blind Growing
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.br
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Libburn drives
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.br
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Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, El Torito, ACL, xattr
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Command processing
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Dialog, Readline, Result pager
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.sp 1
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Maybe you first want to have a look at section EXAMPLES near the end of
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this text before reading the next few hundred lines of background information.
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.SS
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\fBSession model:\fR
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.br
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Unlike other filesystems, \fBISO 9660\fR (aka \fBECMA\-119\fR)
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is not intended for read\-write operation but
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rather for being generated in a single sweep and being written to media as a
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\fBsession\fR.
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.br
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The data content of the session is called filesystem \fBimage\fR.
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.PP
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The written image in its session can then be mounted by the operating system
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for being used read\-only. GNU/Linux is able to mount ISO images from block
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devices, which may represent optical media, other media or via a loop device
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even from regular disk files. FreeBSD mounts ISO images from devices that
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represent arbitrary media or from regular disk files.
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.PP
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This session usage model has been extended on CD media by the concept of
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\fBmulti\-session\fR ,
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which allows to add information to the CD and gives the mount programs
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of the operating systems the addresses of the entry points of each
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session. The mount programs recognize block devices which represent
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CD media and will by default mount the image in the last session.
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.br
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This session usually contains an updated directory tree for the whole medium
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which governs the data contents in all recorded sessions.
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So in the view of the mount program all sessions of a particular medium
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together form a single filesystem image.
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.br
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Adding a session to an existing ISO image is in this text referred as
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\fBgrowing\fR.
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.br
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The multi\-session model of the MMC standard does not apply to all media
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types. But program growisofs by Andy Polyakov showed how to extend this
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functionality to overwriteable media or disk files which carry valid ISO 9660
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filesystems.
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.PP
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\fBxorriso\fR provides growing as well as an own method named
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\fBmodifying\fR which produces a completely new ISO image from the old
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one and the modifications.
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See paragraph Creating, Growing, Modifying, Blind Growing below.
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.PP
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\fBxorriso\fR adopts the concept of multi\-session by loading an
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image directory tree if present,
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by allowing to manipulate it by several actions,
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and by writing the new image to the target medium.
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.br
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The first session of a \fBxorriso\fR run begins by the definition of
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the input drive with the ISO image or by the definition of an output drive.
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The session ends by command \-commit which triggers writing. A \-commit is
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done automatically when the program ends regularly.
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.PP
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After \-commit a new session begins with the freshly written one as input.
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A new input drive can only be chosen as long as the loaded ISO image was
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not altered. Pending alteration can be revoked by command \-rollback.
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.PP
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Writing a session to the target is supposed to be very expensive in terms of
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time and of consumed space on appendable or write\-once media. Therefore all
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intended manipulations of a particular ISO image should be done in a single
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session. But in principle it is possible
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to store intermediate states and to continue with image manipulations.
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.SS
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.B Media types and states:
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There are two families of media in the MMC standard:
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.br
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\fBMulti\-session media\fR are CD\-R, CD\-RW, DVD\-R, DVD+R, DVD+R/DL, BD\-R, and
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unformatted DVD\-RW. These media provide a table of content which
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describes their existing sessions. See command \fB\-toc\fR.
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.br
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Similar to multi\-session media are DVD\-R DL and minimally blanked DVD\-RW.
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They allow only a single session of which the size must be known in advance.
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\fBxorriso\fR will write onto them only if command \-close is set to "on".
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.br
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\fBOverwriteable media\fR are DVD\-RAM, DVD+RW, BD\-RE, and formatted DVD\-RW.
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They allow random write access but do not provide information about their
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session history. If they contain one or more ISO 9660 sessions and if the
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first session was written by \fBxorriso\fR, then a table of content can
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be emulated. Else only a single overall session will be visible.
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.br
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DVD\-RW media can be formatted by \-format "full".
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They can be made unformatted by \-blank "deformat".
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Regular files and block devices are handled as overwriteable media.
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Pipes and other writeable file types are handled as blank multi\-session media.
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.PP
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These media can assume several states in which they offer different
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capabilities.
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\fBBlank\fR media can be written from scratch. They contain no ISO image
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suitable for \fBxorriso\fR.
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.br
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Blank is the state of newly purchased optical media.
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With used CD\-RW and DVD\-RW it can be achieved by action \-blank "as_needed".
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Overwriteable media are considered blank if they are new or if they have
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been marked as blank by \fBxorriso\fR.
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Action \-blank "as_needed" can be used to do this marking on overwriteable
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media, or to apply mandatory formatting to new media if necessary.
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.br
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\fBAppendable\fR media accept further sessions. Either they are MMC
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multi\-session media in appendable state, or they are overwriteable media
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which contain an ISO image suitable for \fBxorriso\fR.
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.br
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Appendable is the state after writing a session with command \-close off.
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.br
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\fBClosed\fR media cannot be written. They may contain an ISO image suitable
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for \fBxorriso\fR.
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.br
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Closed is the state of DVD\-ROM media and of multi\-session media which were
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written with command \-close on. If the drive is read\-only hardware then it will
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probably show any media as closed CD\-ROM resp. DVD\-ROM.
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.br
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Overwriteable media assume this state in such read\-only drives or if they
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contain unrecognizable data in the first 32 data blocks.
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.br
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Read\-only drives may or may not show session histories of multi\-session
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media. Often only the first and the last session are visible. Sometimes
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not even that. Command \-rom_toc_scan might or might not help in such cases.
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.SS
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.B Creating, Growing, Modifying, Blind Growing:
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A new empty ISO image gets \fBcreated\fR
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if there is no input drive with a valid ISO 9660 image when the first time
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an output drive is defined. This is achieved by command \-dev on blank media
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or by command \-outdev on media in any state.
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.br
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The new empty image can be populated with directories and files.
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Before it can be written, the medium in the output drive must get into
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blank state if it was not blank already.
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.PP
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If there is a input drive with a valid ISO image, then this image gets loaded
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as foundation for manipulations and extension. The constellation of input
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and output drive determines which write method will be used.
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They have quite different capabilities and constraints.
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.PP
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The method of \fBgrowing\fR adds new data to the existing data on the
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medium. These data comprise of new file content and they override the existing
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ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge directory tree. It is possible to hide files from
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previous sessions but they still exist on the medium and with many types of
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optical media it is quite easy to recover them by mounting older sessions.
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.br
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Growing is achieved by command \-dev.
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.PP
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The write method of \fBmodifying\fR produces compact filesystem
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images with no outdated files or directory trees. Modifying can write its
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images to target media which are completely unsuitable for multi\-session
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operations. E.g. DVD\-RW which were treated with \-blank deformat_quickest,
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DVD\-R DL, named pipes, character devices, sockets.
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On the other hand modified sessions cannot be written to appendable media
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but to blank media only.
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.br
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So for this method one needs either two optical drives or has to work with
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filesystem objects as source and/or target medium.
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.br
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Modifying takes place if input drive and output drive are not the same and
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if command \-grow_blindly is set to its default "off".
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This is achieved by commands \-indev and \-outdev.
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.PP
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If command \-grow_blindly is set to a non\-negative number and if \-indev and
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\-outdev are both set to different drives, then \fBblind growing\fR is
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performed. It produces an add\-on session which is ready for being written
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to the given block address. This is the usage model of
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.br
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mkisofs \-M $indev \-C $msc1,$msc2 \-o $outdev
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.br
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which gives much room for wrong parameter combinations and should thus only be
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employed if a strict distinction between ISO formatter \fBxorriso\fR
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and the burn program is desired. \-C $msc1,$msc2 is equivalent to:
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.br
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\-load sbsector $msc1 \-grow_blindly $msc2
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.SS
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.B Libburn drives:
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.br
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Input drive, i.e. source of an existing or empty ISO image, can be any random
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access readable libburn drive: optical media with readable data,
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blank optical media, regular files, block devices.
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.PP
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Output drive, i.e. target for writing, can be any libburn drive.
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Some drive types do not support the method of growing but only the methods
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of modifying and blind growing. They all are suitable for newly created images.
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.br
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All drive file objects have to offer rw\-permission to the user of
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\fBxorriso\fR.
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Even those which will not be useable for reading an ISO image.
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.PP
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MMC compliant (i.e. optical) drives on GNU/Linux usually get addressed by
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the path of their block device or of their generic character device. E.g.
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.br
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\-dev /dev/sr0
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\-dev /dev/hdc
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\-dev /dev/sg2
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On FreeBSD the device files have names like
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.br
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\-dev /dev/cd0
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On OpenSolaris:
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\-dev /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2
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Get a list of accessible drives by command
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.br
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\-device_links
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It might be necessary to do this as
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\fBsuperuser\fR
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in order to see all drives and to then allow rw\-access for the intended users.
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Consider to bundle the authorized users in a group like old "floppy".
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.PP
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Filesystem objects of nearly any type can be addressed by prefix "stdio:" and
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their path in the filesystem. E.g.:
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.br
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\-dev stdio:/dev/sdc
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The default setting of \-drive_class allows to address files outside the
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/dev tree without that prefix. E.g.:
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.br
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\-dev /tmp/pseudo_drive
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.br
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If path leads to a regular file or to a block device then the emulated drive
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is random access readable and can be used for the method of growing if it
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already contains a valid ISO 9660 image. Any other file type is not readable
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via "stdio:" and can only be used as target for the method of modifying or
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blind growing.
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Non\-existing paths in existing directories are handled as empty regular files.
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.PP
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A very special kind of pseudo drive are open file descriptors. They are
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depicted by "stdio:/dev/fd/" and descriptor number (see man 2 open).
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.br
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Addresses "\-" or "stdio:/dev/fd/1" depict standard output, which normally is
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the output channel for result texts.
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To prevent a fatal intermingling of ISO image and text messages, all result
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texts get redirected to stderr if \-*dev "\-" or "stdio:/dev/fd/1" is among
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the start arguments of the program.
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.br
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Standard output is currently suitable for creating one session
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per program run without dialog. Use in other situations is discouraged
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and several restrictions apply:
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.br
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It is not allowed to use standard output as pseudo drive if it was not
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among the start arguments. Do not try to fool this ban via backdoor addresses
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to stdout.
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.br
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If stdout is used as drive, then \-use_readline is permanently disabled.
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Use of backdoors can cause severe memory and/or tty corruption.
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.PP
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Be aware that especially the superuser can write into any accessible file or
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device by using its path with the "stdio:" prefix. By default any address
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in the /dev tree without prefix "stdio:" will work only if it leads to a MMC
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drive.
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.br
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One may use command
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\fB\-ban_stdio_write\fR
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to surely prevent this risk and to allow only MMC drives.
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.br
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One may prepend "mmc:" to a path to surely disallow any automatic "stdio:".
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.br
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By command \-drive_class one may ban certain paths or allow access without
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prefix "stdio:" to other paths.
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.SS
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.B Rock Ridge, POSIX, X/Open, El Torito, ACL, xattr:
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.br
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\fBRock Ridge\fR
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is the name of a set of additional information which enhance
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an ISO 9660 filesystem so that it can represent a POSIX compliant filesystem
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with ownership, access permissions, symbolic links, and other attributes.
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.br
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This is what \fBxorriso\fR uses for a decent representation of the disk
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files within the ISO image. Rock Ridge information is produced with any
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\fBxorriso\fR image.
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.PP
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\fBxorriso\fR is not named "porriso" because POSIX only guarantees
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14 characters
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of filename length. It is the X/Open System Interface standard XSI which
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demands a file name length of up to 255 characters and paths of up to 1024
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characters. Rock Ridge fulfills this demand.
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.PP
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An \fBEl Torito\fR
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boot record points the BIOS bootstrapping facility to one or more boot
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images, which are binary program files stored in the ISO image.
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The content of the boot image files is not in the scope of El Torito.
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.br
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Most bootable GNU/Linux CDs are equipped with ISOLINUX or GRUB boot images.
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\fBxorriso\fR is able to create or maintain an El Torito object which
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makes such an image bootable. For details see command \-boot_image.
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.br
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It is possible to make ISO images bootable from USB stick or other
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hard\-disk\-like media by \-boot_image parameter system_area= . This installs
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a Master Boot Record which may get adjusted according to the needs
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of GRUB resp. ISOLINUX.
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An \fBMBR\fR contains boot code and a partition table. It does not hamper
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CDROM booting. The new MBR of a follow\-up session can get in effect
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only on overwriteable media.
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.br
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Emulation \-as mkisofs supports the example options out of the ISOLINUX wiki,
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the options used in GRUB script grub\-mkrescue, and the example in the
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FreeBSD AvgLiveCD wiki.
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.br
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There is support for boot facilities other than PC BIOS:
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EFI, MIPS Big Endian (SGI), MIPS Little Endian (DEC), SUN SPARC.
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.br
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.PP
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\fBACL\fR
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are an advanced way of controlling access permissions to file objects. Neither
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ISO 9660 nor Rock Ridge specify a way to record ACLs. So libisofs has
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introduced a standard conformant extension named AAIP for that purpose.
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It uses this extension if enabled by command
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\fB\-acl\fR.
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.br
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AAIP enhanced images are supposed to be mountable normally, but one cannot
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expect that the mounted filesystem will show and respect the ACLs.
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For now, only \fBxorriso\fR is able to retrieve those ACLs.
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It can bring them into
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effect when files get restored to an ACL enabled file system or it can
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print them in a format suitable for tool setfacl.
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.br
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Files with ACL show as group permissions the setting of entry "mask::" if
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that entry exists. Nevertheless the non\-listed group members get handled
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according to entry "group::". When removing ACL from a file,
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\fBxorriso\fR brings "group::" into effect.
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.br
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Recording and restoring of ACLs from and to local files works currently
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only on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
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.PP
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\fBxattr\fR (aka EA, or extattr)
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are pairs of name and value which can be attached to file objects. AAIP is
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able to represent them and \fBxorriso\fR allows to record and restore
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pairs which
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have names out of the user namespace. I.e. those which begin with "user.",
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like "user.x" or "user.whatever". Name has to be a 0 terminated string.
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Value may be any array of bytes which does not exceed the size of 4095 bytes.
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xattr processing happens only if it is enabled by command
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\fB\-xattr\fR.
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.br
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As with ACL, currently only \fBxorriso\fR is able to retrieve xattr
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from AAIP enhanced images, to restore them to xattr capable file systems,
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or to print them.
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.br
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Recording and restoring of xattr from and to local files works currently
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only on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, where they are known as extattr.
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.SS
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.B Command processing:
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.br
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Commands are either actions which happen immediately or settings which
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influence following actions. So their sequence does matter, unless they are
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given as program arguments and command
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\fB\-x\fR
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is among them.
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.br
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Commands consist of a command word,
|
|
followed by zero or more parameter words. If the list of parameter words
|
|
is of variable length (indicated by "[...]" or "[***]") then it must be
|
|
terminated by either the \fBlist delimiter\fR, occur at the end of
|
|
the argument list, or occur at the end of an input line.
|
|
.PP
|
|
At program start the list delimiter is the string "\-\-".
|
|
This may be changed with the \-list_delimiter command in order to allow
|
|
"\-\-" as parameter in a variable length list.
|
|
However, it is advised to reset the delimiter to "\-\-"
|
|
immediately afterwards.
|
|
.br
|
|
For brevity the list delimiter is referred as "\-\-"
|
|
throughout this text.
|
|
.br
|
|
The list delimiter is silently ignored if it appears after the parameters of
|
|
a command with a fixed list length. It is handled as normal text if it
|
|
appears among the parameters of such a command.
|
|
.PP
|
|
\fBPattern expansion\fR
|
|
converts a list of pattern words into a list of existing file addresses.
|
|
Unmatched pattern words will appear unaltered in that result list.
|
|
.br
|
|
Pattern matching supports the usual shell parser wildcards '*' '?' '[xyz]'
|
|
and respects '/' as the path separator, which may only be matched literally.
|
|
.br
|
|
Pattern expansion is a property of some particular commands and not a general
|
|
feature. It is controlled by commands \-iso_rr_pattern and \-disk_pattern.
|
|
Commands which use pattern expansion all have variable parameter
|
|
lists which are specified in this text by "[***]" rather than "[...]".
|
|
.br
|
|
Some other commands perform pattern matching unconditionally.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Command and parameter words are either read from the program arguments, where
|
|
one argument is one word, or from quoted input lines where words are recognized
|
|
similar to the quotation rules of a shell parser.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR is not a shell, although it might appear so at first glimpse.
|
|
Be aware that the interaction of quotation marks and pattern symbols like "*"
|
|
differs from the usual shell parsers. In \fBxorriso\fR, a quotation mark
|
|
does not make a pattern symbol literal.
|
|
.PP
|
|
\fBQuoted input\fR
|
|
converts whitespace\-separated text into words.
|
|
The double quotation mark " and the single quotation mark ' can be used to
|
|
enclose whitespace and make it part of words (e.g. of file names). Each mark
|
|
type can enclose the marks of the other type. A trailing backslash \\ outside
|
|
quotations or an open quotation cause the next input line to be appended.
|
|
.br
|
|
Quoted input accepts any 8\-bit character except NUL (0) as the content of
|
|
the quotes.
|
|
Nevertheless it can be cumbersome for the user to produce those characters
|
|
directly. Therefore quoted input and program arguments allow optional
|
|
\fBBackslash Interpretation\fR
|
|
which can represent all 8\-bit characters except NUL (0) via backslash codes
|
|
as in $'...' of bash.
|
|
.br
|
|
This is not enabled by default. See command \-backslash_codes.
|
|
.PP
|
|
When the program starts then it first looks for argument \-no_rc. If this is
|
|
not present then it looks for its startup files and
|
|
reads their content as command input lines. Then it interprets
|
|
the program arguments as commands and parameters. Finally it enters
|
|
dialog mode if command \-dialog "on" has been executed by this point.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The program ends either by command \-end, or by the end of program arguments
|
|
if dialog mode has not been enabled at that point, or by a problem
|
|
event which triggers the threshold of command \-abort_on.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Dialog, Readline, Result pager:
|
|
.br
|
|
Dialog mode prompts for a quoted input line, parses it into words, and performs
|
|
them as commands with their parameters. It provides assisting services
|
|
to make dialog more comfortable.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Readline is an enhancement for the input line. You may already know it from
|
|
the bash shell. Whether it is available in \fBxorriso\fR depends on the
|
|
availability
|
|
of package readline\-dev at the time when \fBxorriso\fR was built from
|
|
its sourcecode.
|
|
.br
|
|
Readline allows to move the cursor over the text in the line by help of the
|
|
Left and the Right arrow keys.
|
|
Text may be inserted at the cursor position. The Delete key removes the
|
|
character under the cursor. Up and Down arrow keys navigate through
|
|
the history of previous input lines.
|
|
.br
|
|
See man readline
|
|
for more info about libreadline.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Command \-page activates a built\-in result text pager which may be convenient in
|
|
dialog mode. After an action has output the given number of terminal lines,
|
|
the pager prompts the user for a line of input.
|
|
.br
|
|
An empty line lets \fBxorriso\fR resume work until the next page is output.
|
|
.br
|
|
The single character "@" disables paging for the current action.
|
|
.br
|
|
"@@@", "x", "q", "X", or "Q" request that the current action aborts and
|
|
suppress further result output.
|
|
.br
|
|
Any other line input will be interpreted as new dialog line. The current action
|
|
is requested to abort. Afterwards, the input line is executed.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Some actions apply paging to their info output, too.
|
|
.br
|
|
The request to abort may or may not be obeyed by the current action.
|
|
All actions try to abort as soon as possible.
|
|
.br
|
|
.SH OPTIONS
|
|
.br
|
|
All command words are shown with a leading dash although this dash is not
|
|
mandatory for the command to be recognized. Nevertheless within command \-as
|
|
the dashes of the emulated commands are mandatory.
|
|
.br
|
|
Normally any number of leading dashes is ignored with command words and
|
|
inner dashes are interpreted as underscores.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Execution order of program arguments:
|
|
.PP
|
|
By default the program arguments of a xorriso run are interpreted as a
|
|
sequence of commands which get performed exactly in the given order.
|
|
This requires the user to write commands for desired settings before the
|
|
commands which shall be influenced by those settings.
|
|
.br
|
|
Many other programs support program arguments in an arbitrary ordering
|
|
and perform settings and actions in a sequence at their own discretion.
|
|
xorriso provides an option to enable such a behavior
|
|
at the cost of loss of expressivity.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-x\fR
|
|
Enable automatic sorting of program arguments into a sequence that
|
|
(most likely) is sensible.
|
|
This command may be given at any position among the commands
|
|
which are handed over as program arguments.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note: It works only if it is given as program argument and
|
|
with a single dash (i.e. "\-x"). It will not work in startup files, nor with
|
|
\-options_from_file, nor in dialog mode, nor as "x" and finally not as
|
|
"\-\-x".
|
|
It affects only the commands given as program arguments.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_arg_sorting\fR
|
|
List all xorriso commands in the order which applies if command \-x is in
|
|
effect.
|
|
.br
|
|
This list may also be helpful without \-x for a user who ponders over the
|
|
sequence in which to put commands. Deviations from the listed sorting order may
|
|
well make sense, though.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Acquiring source and target drive:
|
|
.PP
|
|
The effect of acquiring a drive may depend on several commands in the
|
|
next paragraph "Influencing the behavior of image loading".
|
|
If desired, their enabling commands have to be performed before the
|
|
commands which acquire the drive.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dev\fR address
|
|
Set input and output drive to the same address and load an ISO image if it
|
|
is present.
|
|
If there is no ISO image then create a blank one.
|
|
Set the image expansion method to growing.
|
|
.br
|
|
This is only allowed as long as no changes are pending in the currently
|
|
loaded ISO image. If changes are pending, then one has to perform \-commit
|
|
or \-rollback first.
|
|
.br
|
|
Special address string "\-" means standard output, to which several restrictions
|
|
apply. See above paragraph "Libburn drives".
|
|
.br
|
|
An empty address string "" gives up the current device
|
|
without acquiring a new one.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-indev\fR address
|
|
Set input drive and load an ISO image if present.
|
|
If the new input drive differs
|
|
from \-outdev then switch from growing to modifying or to blind growing.
|
|
It depends on the setting of \-grow_blindly which of both gets activated.
|
|
The same rules and restrictions apply as with \-dev.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-outdev\fR address
|
|
Set output drive and if it differs from the input drive then switch from
|
|
growing to modifying or to blind growing. Unlike \-dev and \-indev this action
|
|
does not load a new ISO image. So it can be performed even if there are pending
|
|
changes.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-outdev can be performed without previous \-dev or \-indev. In that case an
|
|
empty ISO image with no changes pending is created. It can either be populated
|
|
by help of \-map, \-add et.al. or it can be discarded silently if \-dev or \-indev
|
|
are performed afterwards.
|
|
.br
|
|
Special address string "\-" means standard output, to which several restrictions
|
|
apply. See above paragraph "Libburn drives".
|
|
.br
|
|
An empty address string "" gives up the current output drive
|
|
without acquiring a new one. No writing is possible without an output drive.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-grow_blindly\fR "off"|predicted_nwa
|
|
If predicted_nwa is a non\-negative number then perform blind growing rather
|
|
than modifying if \-indev and \-outdev are set to different drives.
|
|
"off" or "\-1" switch to modifying, which is the default.
|
|
.br
|
|
predicted_nwa is the block address where the add\-on session of blind
|
|
growing will finally end up. It is the responsibility of the user to ensure
|
|
this final position and the presence of the older sessions. Else the
|
|
overall ISO image will not be mountable or will produce read errors when
|
|
accessing file content. \fBxorriso\fR will write the session to the address
|
|
as obtained from examining \-outdev and not necessarily to predicted_nwa.
|
|
.br
|
|
During a run of blind growing, the input drive is given up before output
|
|
begins. The output drive is given up when writing is done.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Influencing the behavior of image loading:
|
|
.PP
|
|
The following commands should normally be performed before loading an image
|
|
by acquiring an input drive. In rare cases it is desirable to activate
|
|
them only after image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-load\fR entity id
|
|
Load a particular (possibly outdated) ISO session from \-dev or \-indev.
|
|
Usually all available sessions are shown with command \-toc.
|
|
.br
|
|
entity depicts the kind of addressing. id depicts the particular
|
|
address. The following entities are defined:
|
|
.br
|
|
"auto" with any id addresses the last session in \-toc. This is the default.
|
|
.br
|
|
"session" with id being a number as of a line "ISO session", column "Idx".
|
|
.br
|
|
"track" with id being a number as of a line "ISO track", column "Idx".
|
|
.br
|
|
"lba" or "sbsector" with a number as of a line "ISO ...", column "sbsector".
|
|
.br
|
|
"volid" with a search pattern for a text as of a line "ISO ...",
|
|
column "Volume Id".
|
|
.br
|
|
Adressing a non\-existing entity or one which does not represent an ISO
|
|
image will either abandon \-indev or at least lead to a blank image.
|
|
.br
|
|
If an input drive is set at the moment when \-load is executed, then the
|
|
addressed ISO image is loaded immediately. Else, the setting will be pending
|
|
until the next \-dev or \-indev. After the image has been loaded once, the
|
|
setting is valid for \-rollback until next \-dev or \-indev, where it
|
|
will be reset to "auto".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-displacement\fR [-]lba
|
|
Compensate a displacement of the image versus the start address
|
|
for which the image was prepared. This affects only loading of ISO images
|
|
and reading of their files. The multi\-session method of growing is not allowed
|
|
as long as \-displacement is non\-zero. I.e. \-indev and \-outdev must be
|
|
different. The displacement gets reset to 0 before the drive
|
|
gets re\-acquired after writing.
|
|
.br
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.br
|
|
If a track of a CD starts at block 123456 and gets copied to a disk file
|
|
where it begins at block 0, then this copy can be loaded with
|
|
\-displacement \-123456.
|
|
.br
|
|
If an ISO image was written onto a partition with offset of 640000 blocks of
|
|
512 bytes, then it can be loaded from the base device by \-displacement 160000.
|
|
.br
|
|
In both cases, the ISO sessions should be self contained, i.e. not add\-on
|
|
sessions to an ISO image outside their track resp. partition.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-drive_class\fR "harmless"|"banned"|"caution"|"clear_list" disk_pattern
|
|
Add a drive path pattern to one of the safety lists or make those lists empty.
|
|
There are three lists defined which get tested in the following sequence:
|
|
.br
|
|
If a drive address path matches the "harmless" list then the drive will be
|
|
accepted. If it is not a MMC device then the prefix "stdio:" will be prepended
|
|
automatically. This list is empty by default.
|
|
.br
|
|
Else if the path matches the "banned" list then the drive will not be
|
|
accepted by \fBxorriso\fR but rather lead to a FAILURE event.
|
|
This list is empty by default.
|
|
.br
|
|
Else if the path matches the "caution" list and if it is not a MMC device,
|
|
then its address must have the prefix "stdio:" or it will be rejected.
|
|
This list has by default one entry: "/dev".
|
|
.br
|
|
If a drive path matches no list then it is considered "harmless". By default
|
|
these are all paths which do not begin with directory "/dev".
|
|
.br
|
|
A path matches a list if one of its parent paths or itself matches a list
|
|
entry. Address prefix "stdio:" or "mmc:" will be ignored when
|
|
testing for matches.
|
|
.br
|
|
By pseudo\-class "clear_list" and pseudo\-patterns "banned", "caution",
|
|
"harmless", or "all", the lists may be made empty.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-drive_class clear_list banned
|
|
.br
|
|
One will normally define the \-drive_class lists in one of the \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
Startup Files.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note: This is not a security feature but rather a bumper for the superuser to
|
|
prevent inadverted mishaps. For reliably blocking access to a device file you
|
|
have to deny its rw\-permissions in the filesystem.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-assert_volid\fR pattern severity
|
|
Refuse to load ISO images with volume ids which do not match the given
|
|
search pattern. When refusing an image, give up the input drive and issue
|
|
an event of the given severity (like FAILURE, see \-abort_on). An empty search
|
|
pattern accepts any image.
|
|
.br
|
|
This command does not hamper the creation of an empty image from blank
|
|
input media and does not discard an already loaded image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-in_charset\fR character_set_name
|
|
Set the character set from which to convert file names when loading an
|
|
image. See paragraph "Character sets" for more explanations.
|
|
When loading the written image after \-commit the setting of \-out_charset
|
|
will be copied to \-in_charset.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-auto_charset\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Enable or disable recording and interpretation of the output character
|
|
set name in an xattr attribute of the image root directory. If enabled and
|
|
if a recorded character set name is found, then this name will be used as
|
|
namoe of the input character set when reading an image.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note that the default output charset is the local character set of the
|
|
terminal where \fBxorriso\fR runs. Before attributing this local
|
|
character set
|
|
to the produced ISO image, check whether the terminal properly displays
|
|
all intended filenames, especially exotic national characters.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-hardlinks\fR mode[:mode...]
|
|
Enable or disable loading and recording of hardlink relations.
|
|
.br
|
|
In default mode "off", iso_rr files lose their inode numbers at image load
|
|
time. Each iso_rr file object which has no inode number at image generation
|
|
time will get a new unique inode number if \-compliance is set to new_rr.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "on" preserves inode numbers from the loaded image if such numbers
|
|
were recorded.
|
|
When committing a session it searches for families of iso_rr files
|
|
which stem from the same disk file, have identical content filtering and have
|
|
identical properties. The family members all get the same inode number.
|
|
Whether these numbers are respected at mount time depends on the operating
|
|
system.
|
|
.br
|
|
Commands \-update and \-update_r track splits and fusions of hard links in
|
|
filesystems which have stable device and inode numbers. This can cause
|
|
automatic last minute changes before the session gets written. Command
|
|
\-hardlinks "perform_update" may be used to do these changes earlier,
|
|
e.g. if you need to apply filters to all updated files.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "without_update" avoids hardlink processing during update commands.
|
|
Use this if your filesystem situation does not allow \-disk_dev_ino "on".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR commands which extract files from an ISO image try to
|
|
hardlink files
|
|
with identical inode number. The normal scope of this operation is from
|
|
image load to image load. One may give up the accumulated hard link addresses
|
|
by \-hardlinks "discard_extract".
|
|
.br
|
|
A large number of hardlink families may exhaust \-temp_mem_limit
|
|
if not \-osirrox "sort_lba_on" and \-hardlinks "cheap_sorted_extract"
|
|
are both in effect. This restricts hard linking to other files restored by
|
|
the same single extract command. \-hardlinks "normal_extract" re\-enables
|
|
wide and expensive hardlink accumulation.
|
|
.br
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-acl\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Enable or disable processing of ACLs.
|
|
If enabled, then \fBxorriso\fR will obtain ACLs from disk file objects,
|
|
store ACLs in the ISO image using the libisofs specific AAIP format,
|
|
load AAIP data from ISO images, test ACL during file comparison,
|
|
and restore ACLs to disk files when extracting them from ISO images.
|
|
See also commands \-getfacl, \-setfacl.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-xattr\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Enable or disable processing of xattr attributes in user namespace.
|
|
If enabled, then \fBxorriso\fR will handle xattr similar to ACL.
|
|
See also commands \-getfattr, \-setfattr and above paragraph about xattr.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-md5\fR "on"|"all"|"off"|"load_check_off"
|
|
Enable or disable processing of MD5 checksums for the overall session and for
|
|
each single data file. If enabled then images with checksum tags get loaded
|
|
only if the tags of superblock and directory tree match properly. The MD5
|
|
checksums of data files and whole session get loaded from the image if there
|
|
are any.
|
|
.br
|
|
With commands \-compare and \-update the recorded MD5 of a file
|
|
will be used to avoid content reading from the image. Only the disk file
|
|
content will be read and compared with that MD5. This can save much time
|
|
if \-disk_dev_ino "on" is not suitable.
|
|
.br
|
|
At image generation time they are computed for each file which gets its data
|
|
written into the new session. The checksums of files which have their data
|
|
in older sessions get copied into the new session. Superblock, tree and whole
|
|
session get a checksum tag each.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "all" will additionally check during image generation whether the checksum
|
|
of a data file changed between the time when its reading began and the time
|
|
when it ended. This implies reading every file twice.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "load_check_off" together with "on" or "all" will load recorded MD5 sums
|
|
but not test the recorded checksum tags of superblock and directory tree.
|
|
This is necessary if growisofs was used as burn program, because it does
|
|
not overwrite the superblock checksum tag of the first session.
|
|
Therefore load_check_off is in effect when \fBxorriso\fR \-as mkisofs
|
|
option \-M is performed.
|
|
.br
|
|
The test can be re\-enabled by mode "load_check_on".
|
|
.br
|
|
Checksums can be exploited via commands \-check_md5, \-check_md5_r, via find
|
|
actions get_md5, check_md5, and via \-check_media.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-for_backup\fR
|
|
Enable all extra features which help to produce or to restore backups with
|
|
highest fidelity of file properties.
|
|
Currently this is a shortcut for: \-hardlinks on \-acl on \-xattr on \-md5 on.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-disk_dev_ino\fR "on"|"ino_only"|"off"
|
|
Enable or disable processing of recorded file identification numbers
|
|
(dev_t and ino_t). If enabled they are stored as xattr and allow
|
|
to substantially accelerate file comparison. The root node gets a global start
|
|
timestamp. If during comparison a file with younger timestamps is found in the
|
|
ISO image, then it is suspected to have inconsistent content.
|
|
.br
|
|
If device numbers and inode numbers of the disk filesystems are persistent
|
|
and if no irregular alterations of timestamps or system clock happen,
|
|
then potential content changes can be detected without reading that content.
|
|
File content change is assumed if any of mtime, ctime, device number or inode
|
|
number have changed.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "ino_only" replaces the precondition that device numbers are stable by the
|
|
precondition that mount points in the compared tree always lead to the
|
|
same filesystems. Use this if mode "on" always sees all files changed.
|
|
.br
|
|
The speed advantage appears only if the loaded session was produced with
|
|
\-disk_dev_ino "on" too.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note that \-disk_dev_ino "off" is totally in effect only if \-hardlinks is "off",
|
|
too.
|
|
.TP
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\fB\-rom_toc_scan\fR "on"|"force"|"off"[:"emul_on"|"emul_off"]
|
|
Read\-only drives do not tell the actual media type but show any media as
|
|
ROM (e.g. as DVD\-ROM). The session history of MMC multi\-session media might
|
|
be truncated to first and last session or even be completely false.
|
|
(The emulated history of overwriteable media is not affected by this.)
|
|
.br
|
|
To have in case of failure a chance of getting the session history and
|
|
especially the address of the last session, there is a scan for ISO 9660
|
|
filesystem headers which might help but also might yield worse results
|
|
than the drive's table of content. At its end it can cause read attempts
|
|
to invalid addresses and thus ugly drive behavior.
|
|
Setting "on" enables that scan for alleged read\-only media.
|
|
.br
|
|
Some operating systems are not able to mount the most recent session of
|
|
multi\-session DVD or BD. If on such a system \fBxorriso\fR has no own MMC
|
|
capabilities then it may still find that session from a scanned table of
|
|
content. Setting "force" handles any media like a ROM medium with setting "on".
|
|
.br
|
|
On the other hand the emulation of session history on overwriteable media
|
|
can hamper reading of partly damaged media. Setting "off:emul_off" disables
|
|
the elsewise trustworthy table\-of\-content scan for those media.
|
|
.br
|
|
To be in effect, the \-rom_toc_scan setting has to be made before the \-*dev
|
|
command which acquires drive and medium.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-calm_drive\fR "in"|"out"|"all"|"revoke"|"on"|"off"
|
|
Reduce drive noise until it is actually used again. Some drives stay alert
|
|
for substantial time after they have been used for reading. This reduces
|
|
the startup time for the next drive operation but can be loud and waste
|
|
energy if no i/o with the drive is expected to happen soon.
|
|
.br
|
|
Modes "in", "out", "all" immediately calm down \-indev, \-outdev, resp. both.
|
|
Mode "revoke" immediately alerts both.
|
|
Mode "on" causes \-calm_drive to be performed automatically after each \-dev,
|
|
\-indev, and \-outdev. Mode "off" disables this.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-ban_stdio_write\fR
|
|
Allow for writing only the usage of MMC optical drives. Disallow
|
|
to write the result into files of nearly arbitrary type.
|
|
Once set, this command cannot be revoked.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-early_stdio_test\fR "on"|"appendable_wo"|"off"
|
|
If enabled by "on" then regular files and block devices get tested for
|
|
effective access permissions. This implies to try opening those files for
|
|
writing, which otherwise will happen only later and only if actual
|
|
writing is desired.
|
|
.br
|
|
The test result is used for classifying the pseudo drives as overwriteable,
|
|
read\-only, write\-only, or uselessly empty. This may lead to earlier detection
|
|
of severe problems, and may avoid some less severe error events.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "appendable_wo" is like "on" with the additional property that
|
|
non\-empty write\-only files are regarded as appendable rather than blank.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-data_cache_size\fR number_of_tiles blocks_per_tile
|
|
Set the size and granularity of the data cache which is used when ISO images
|
|
are loaded and when file content is read from ISO images. The cache consists
|
|
of several tiles, which each consists of several blocks. A larger cache
|
|
reduces the need for tiles being read multiple times. Larger tiles might
|
|
additionally improve the data throughput from the drive, but can be
|
|
wasteful if the data are scattered over the medium.
|
|
.br
|
|
Larger cache sizes help best with image loading from MMC drives. They are an
|
|
inferior alternative to \-osirrox option "sort_lba_on".
|
|
.br
|
|
blocks_per_tile must be a power of 2. E.g. 16, 32, or 64. The overall cache
|
|
size must not exceed 1 GiB.
|
|
The default values can be restored by parameter "default" instead of one or
|
|
both of the numbers.
|
|
Currently the default is 32 tiles of 32 blocks = 2 MiB.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Inserting files into ISO image:
|
|
.PP
|
|
The following commands expect file addresses of two kinds:
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBdisk_path\fR
|
|
is a path to an object in the local filesystem tree.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBiso_rr_path\fR
|
|
is the Rock Ridge name of a file object in the ISO image. (Do not
|
|
confuse with the lowlevel ISO 9660 names visible if Rock Ridge gets ignored.)
|
|
.PP
|
|
Note that in the ISO image you are as powerful as the superuser. Access
|
|
permissions of the existing files in the image do not apply to your write
|
|
operations. They are intended to be in effect with the read\-only mounted image.
|
|
.PP
|
|
If the iso_rr_path of a newly inserted file leads to an existing
|
|
file object in the ISO image, then the following collision handling
|
|
happens:
|
|
.br
|
|
If both objects are directories then they get merged by recursively inserting
|
|
the subobjects from filesystem into ISO image.
|
|
If other file types collide then the setting of command
|
|
\fB\-overwrite\fR
|
|
decides.
|
|
.br
|
|
Renaming of files has similar collision handling, but directories can only
|
|
be replaced, not merged. Note that if the target directory exists, then \-mv
|
|
inserts the source objects into this directory rather than attempting
|
|
to replace it.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The commands in this section alter the ISO image and not the local filesystem.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-disk_pattern\fR "on"|"ls"|"off"
|
|
Set the pattern expansion mode for the disk_path parameters of several
|
|
commands which support this feature.
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "off" disables this feature for all commands which are marked in this
|
|
man page by "disk_path [***]" or "disk_pattern [***]".
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "on" enables it for all those commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "ls" enables it only for those which are marked by
|
|
"disk_pattern [***]".
|
|
.br
|
|
Default is "ls".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-add\fR pathspec [...] | disk_path [***]
|
|
Insert the given files or directory trees from filesystem
|
|
into the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
If \-pathspecs is set to "on" then pattern expansion is always disabled and
|
|
character '=' has a special meaning. It separates the ISO image path
|
|
from the disk path:
|
|
.br
|
|
iso_rr_path=disk_path
|
|
.br
|
|
The separator '=' can be escaped by '\\'.
|
|
If iso_rr_path does not begin with '/' then \-cd is prepended.
|
|
If disk_path does not begin with '/' then \-cdx is prepended.
|
|
.br
|
|
If no '=' is given then the word is used as both, iso_rr_path and disk path.
|
|
If in this case the word does not begin with '/' then \-cdx is prepended to
|
|
the disk_path and \-cd is prepended to the iso_rr_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
If \-pathspecs is set to "off" then \-disk_pattern expansion applies, if enabled.
|
|
The resulting words are used as both, iso_rr_path and disk path. Relative
|
|
path words get prepended the setting of \-cdx to disk_path and the setting
|
|
of \-cd to iso_rr_path.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-add_plainly\fR mode
|
|
If set to mode "unknown" then any command word that does not begin with "\-" and
|
|
is not recognized as known command will be subject to a virtual \-add command.
|
|
I.e. it will be used as pathspec or as disk_path and added to the image.
|
|
If enabled, \-disk_pattern expansion applies to disk_paths.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "dashed" is similar to "unknown" but also adds unrecognized command
|
|
words even if they begin with "\-".
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "any" announces that all further words are to be added as pathspecs
|
|
or disk_paths. This does not work in dialog mode.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "none" is the default. It prevents any words from being understood
|
|
as files to add, if they are not parameters to appropriate commands.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-path_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Like \-add but read the parameter words from file disk_path
|
|
or standard input if disk_path is "\-".
|
|
The list must contain exactly one pathspec resp. disk_path pattern per line.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-quoted_path_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Like \-path_list but with quoted input reading rules. Lines get split into
|
|
parameter words for \-add. Whitespace outside quotes is discarded.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-map\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Insert file object disk_path into the ISO image as iso_rr_path. If disk_path
|
|
is a directory then its whole sub tree is inserted into the ISO image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-map_single\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Like \-map, but if disk_path is a directory then its sub tree is not inserted.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-map_l\fR disk_prefix iso_rr_prefix disk_path [***]
|
|
Perform \-map with each of the disk_path parameters. iso_rr_path will be
|
|
composed from disk_path by replacing disk_prefix by iso_rr_prefix.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-update\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Compare file object disk_path with file object iso_rr_path. If they do not
|
|
match, then perform the necessary image manipulations to make iso_rr_path
|
|
a matching copy of disk_path. By default this comparison will imply lengthy
|
|
content reading before a decision is made. Commands \-disk_dev_ino or \-md5 may
|
|
accelerate comparison if they were already in effect when the loaded session
|
|
was recorded.
|
|
.br
|
|
If disk_path is a directory and iso_rr_path does not exist yet, then the
|
|
whole subtree will be inserted. Else only directory attributes will be
|
|
updated.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-update_r\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Like \-update but working recursively. I.e. all file objects below both
|
|
addresses get compared whether they have counterparts below the other address
|
|
and whether both counterparts match. If there is a mismatch then the necessary
|
|
update manipulation is done.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note that the comparison result may depend on command \-follow. Its setting
|
|
should always be the same as with the first adding of disk_path as iso_rr_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
If iso_rr_path does not exist yet, then it gets added. If disk_path does not
|
|
exist, then iso_rr_path gets deleted.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-update_l\fR disk_prefix iso_rr_prefix disk_path [***]
|
|
Perform \-update_r with each of the disk_path parameters. iso_rr_path will be
|
|
composed from disk_path by replacing disk_prefix by iso_rr_prefix.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cut_out\fR disk_path byte_offset byte_count iso_rr_path
|
|
Map a byte interval of a regular disk file into a regular file in the ISO
|
|
image.
|
|
This may be necessary if the disk file is larger than a single medium, or if
|
|
it exceeds the traditional limit of 2 GiB \- 1 for old operating systems,
|
|
or the limit of 4 GiB \- 1 for newer ones. Only the newest Linux kernels
|
|
seem to read properly files >= 4 GiB \- 1.
|
|
.br
|
|
A clumsy remedy for this limit is to backup file pieces and to concatenate
|
|
them at restore time. A well tested chopping size is 2047m.
|
|
It is permissible to request a higher byte_count than available. The
|
|
resulting file will be truncated to the correct size of a final piece.
|
|
To request a byte_offset higher than available yields no file in
|
|
the ISO image but a SORRY event.
|
|
E.g:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-cut_out /my/disk/file 0 2047m \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/file/part_1_of_3_at_0_with_2047m_of_5753194821 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-cut_out /my/disk/file 2047m 2047m \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/file/part_2_of_3_at_2047m_with_2047m_of_5753194821 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-cut_out /my/disk/file 4094m 2047m \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/file/part_3_of_3_at_4094m_with_2047m_of_5753194821
|
|
.br
|
|
While command \-split_size is set larger than 0, and if all pieces of a file
|
|
reside in the same ISO directory with no other files, and if the names look
|
|
like above, then their ISO directory will be recognized and handled like a
|
|
regular file. This affects commands \-compare*, \-update*, and overwrite
|
|
situations.
|
|
See command \-split_size for details.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cpr\fR disk_path [***] iso_rr_path
|
|
Insert the given files or directory trees from filesystem
|
|
into the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
The rules for generating the ISO addresses are similar as with
|
|
shell command cp \-r. Nevertheless, directories of the iso_rr_path
|
|
are created if necessary. Especially a not yet existing iso_rr_path
|
|
will be handled as directory if multiple disk_paths are present.
|
|
The leafnames of the multiple disk_paths will be grafted under that
|
|
directory as would be done with an existing directory.
|
|
.br
|
|
If a single disk_path is present then a non\-existing iso_rr_path will
|
|
get the same type as the disk_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
If a disk_path does not begin with '/' then \-cdx is prepended.
|
|
If the iso_rr_path does not begin with '/' then \-cd is prepended.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mkdir\fR iso_rr_path [...]
|
|
Create empty directories if they do not exist yet.
|
|
Existence as directory generates a WARNING event, existence as
|
|
other file causes a FAILURE event.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-clone\fR iso_rr_path_original iso_rr_path_copy
|
|
Create a copy of the ISO file object iso_rr_path_original with the new
|
|
address iso_rr_path_copy. If the original is a directory then copy all
|
|
files and directories underneath. If iso_rr_path_original is a boot catalog
|
|
file, then it gets not copied but is silently ignored.
|
|
.br
|
|
The copied ISO file objects have the same attributes. Copied data files
|
|
refer to the same content source as their originals.
|
|
The copies may then be manipulated independendly of their originals.
|
|
.br
|
|
This command will refuse execution if the address iso_rr_path_copy
|
|
already exists in the ISO tree.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cp_clone\fR iso_rr_path_original [***] iso_rr_path_dest
|
|
Create copies of one or more ISO file objects as with command \-clone.
|
|
In case of collision merge directories with existing ones, but do not overwrite
|
|
existing ISO file objects.
|
|
.br
|
|
The rules for generating the copy addresses are the same as with
|
|
command \-cpr (see above) resp. shell command cp \-r. Other than with \-cpr,
|
|
relative iso_rr_path_original will get prepended the \-cd path and not
|
|
the \-cdx path. Consider to \-mkdir iso_rr_path_dest before \-cp_clone
|
|
so the copy address does not depend on the number of iso_rr_path_original
|
|
parameters.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Settings for file insertion:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-file_size_limit\fR value [value [...]] --
|
|
Set the maximum permissible size for a single data file. The values get
|
|
summed up for the actual limit. If the only value is "off" then the file
|
|
size is not limited by \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
Default is a limit of 100 extents, 4g \-2k each:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-file_size_limit 400g \-200k \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
When mounting ISO 9660 filesystems, old operating systems can handle only files
|
|
up to 2g \-1 \-\-. Newer ones are good up to 4g \-1 \-\-.
|
|
You need quite a new Linux kernel to read correctly the final bytes
|
|
of a file >= 4g if its size is not aligned to 2048 byte blocks.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR's own data read capabilities are not affected by
|
|
operating system size limits. Such limits apply to mounting only. Nevertheless,
|
|
the target filesystem of an \-extract must be able to take the file size.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-not_mgt\fR code[:code[...]]
|
|
Control the behavior of the exclusion lists.
|
|
.br
|
|
Exclusion processing happens before disk_paths get mapped to the ISO image
|
|
and before disk files get compared with image files.
|
|
The absolute disk path of the source is matched against the \-not_paths list.
|
|
The leafname of the disk path is matched against the patterns in the \-not_leaf
|
|
list. If a match is detected then the disk path will not be regarded as an
|
|
existing file and not be added to the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
Several codes are defined.
|
|
The _on/_off settings persist until they are revoked by their_off/_on
|
|
counterparts.
|
|
.br
|
|
"erase" empties the lists which were accumulated by \-not_paths and \-not_leaf.
|
|
.br
|
|
"reset" is like "erase" but also re\-installs default behavior.
|
|
.br
|
|
"off" disables exclusion processing temporarily without invalidating
|
|
the lists and settings.
|
|
.br
|
|
"on" re\-enables exclusion processing.
|
|
.br
|
|
"param_off" applies exclusion processing only to paths below disk_path
|
|
parameter of commands. I.e. explicitly given disk_paths are exempted
|
|
from exclusion processing.
|
|
.br
|
|
"param_on" applies exclusion processing to command parameters as well as
|
|
to files below such parameters.
|
|
.br
|
|
"subtree_off" with "param_on" excludes parameter paths only if they
|
|
match a \-not_paths item exactly.
|
|
.br
|
|
"subtree_on" additionally excludes parameter paths which lead to a file
|
|
address below any \-not_paths item.
|
|
.br
|
|
"ignore_off" treats excluded disk files as if they were missing. I.e. they
|
|
get reported with \-compare and deleted from the image with \-update.
|
|
.br
|
|
"ignore_on" keeps excluded files out of \-compare or \-update activities.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-not_paths\fR disk_path [***]
|
|
Add the given paths to the list of excluded absolute disk paths. If a given
|
|
path is relative, then the current \-cdx is prepended to form an absolute path.
|
|
Pattern matching, if enabled, happens at definition time and not when exclusion
|
|
checks are made.
|
|
.br
|
|
(Do not forget to end the list of disk_paths by "\-\-")
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-not_leaf\fR pattern
|
|
Add a single shell parser style pattern to the list of exclusions for
|
|
disk leafnames. These patterns are evaluated when the exclusion checks are
|
|
made.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-not_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Read lines from disk_path and use each of them either as \-not_paths parameter,
|
|
if they contain a / character, or as \-not_leaf pattern.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-quoted_not_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Like \-not_list but with quoted input reading rules. Each word is
|
|
handled as one parameter for \-not_paths resp. \-not_leaf.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-follow\fR occasion[:occasion[...]]
|
|
Enable or disable resolution of symbolic links and mountpoints under
|
|
disk_paths. This applies to actions \-add, \-du*x, \-ls*x, \-findx,
|
|
and to \-disk_pattern expansion.
|
|
.br
|
|
There are two kinds of follow decisison to be made:
|
|
.br
|
|
"link" is the hop from a symbolic link to its target file object.
|
|
If enabled then symbolic links are handled as their target file objects,
|
|
else symbolic links are handled as themselves.
|
|
.br
|
|
"mount" is the hop from one filesystem to another subordinate filesystem.
|
|
If enabled then mountpoint directories are handled as any other directory,
|
|
else mountpoints are handled as empty directories if they are encountered in
|
|
directory tree traversals.
|
|
.br
|
|
Less general than above occasions:
|
|
.br
|
|
"pattern" is mount and link hopping, but only during \-disk_pattern expansion.
|
|
.br
|
|
"param" is link hopping for parameter words (after eventual pattern expansion).
|
|
If enabled then \-ls*x will show the link targets rather than the links
|
|
themselves. \-du*x, \-findx, and \-add will process the link targets but not
|
|
follow links in an eventual directory tree below the targets (unless "link"
|
|
is enabled).
|
|
.br
|
|
Occasions can be combined in a colon separated list. All occasions
|
|
mentioned in the list will then lead to a positive follow decision.
|
|
.br
|
|
"off" prevents any positive follow decision. Use it if no other occasion
|
|
applies.
|
|
.br
|
|
Shortcuts:
|
|
.br
|
|
"default" is equivalent to "pattern:mount:limit=100".
|
|
.br
|
|
"on" always decides positive. Equivalent to "link:mount".
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Not an occasion but an optional setting is:
|
|
.br
|
|
"limit="<number> which sets the maximum number of link hops.
|
|
A link hop consists of a sequence of symbolic links and a final target
|
|
of different type. Nevertheless those hops can loop. Example:
|
|
.br
|
|
$ ln \-s .. uploop
|
|
.br
|
|
Link hopping has a built\-in loop detection which stops hopping at the first
|
|
repetition of a link target. Then the repeated link is handled as itself
|
|
and not as its target.
|
|
Regrettably one can construct link networks which
|
|
cause exponential workload before their loops get detected.
|
|
The number given with "limit=" can curb this workload at the risk of truncating
|
|
an intentional sequence of link hops.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pathspecs\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Control parameter interpretation with \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
actions \-add and \-path_list.
|
|
.br
|
|
"on" enables pathspecs of the form
|
|
\fBtarget=source\fR
|
|
like with program mkisofs \-graft\-points.
|
|
It also disables \-disk_pattern expansion for command \-add.
|
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.br
|
|
"off" disables pathspecs of the form target=source
|
|
and re\-enables \-disk_pattern expansion.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-overwrite\fR "on"|"nondir"|"off"
|
|
Allow or disallow to overwrite existing files in the
|
|
ISO image by files with the same name.
|
|
.br
|
|
With setting "off", name collisions cause FAILURE events.
|
|
With setting "nondir", only directories are protected by such events, other
|
|
existing file types get treated with \-rm before the new file gets added.
|
|
Setting "on" allows automatic \-rm_r. I.e. a non\-directory can replace an
|
|
existing directory and all its subordinates.
|
|
.br
|
|
If restoring of files is enabled, then the overwrite rule applies to the
|
|
target file objects on disk as well, but "on" is downgraded to "nondir".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-split_size\fR number["k"|"m"]
|
|
Set the threshold for automatic splitting of regular files. Such splitting
|
|
maps a large disk file onto a ISO directory with several part files in it.
|
|
This is necessary if the size of the disk file exceeds \-file_size_limit.
|
|
Older operating systems can handle files in mounted ISO 9660 filesystems
|
|
only if they are smaller than 2 GiB resp. 4 GiB.
|
|
.br
|
|
Default is 0 which will exclude files larger than \-file_size_limit by a
|
|
FAILURE event.
|
|
A well tested \-split_size is 2047m. Sizes above \-file_size_limit are not
|
|
permissible.
|
|
.br
|
|
While command \-split_size is set larger than 0 such a directory with split
|
|
file pieces will be recognized and handled like a regular file by commands
|
|
\-compare* , \-update*, and in overwrite situations. There are \-ossirox
|
|
parameters "concat_split_on" and "concat_split_off" which control the handling
|
|
when files get restored to disk.
|
|
.br
|
|
In order to be recognizable, the names of the part files have to
|
|
describe the splitting by 5 numbers:
|
|
.br
|
|
part_number,total_parts,byte_offset,byte_count,disk_file_size
|
|
.br
|
|
which are embedded in the following text form:
|
|
.br
|
|
part_#_of_#_at_#_with_#_of_#
|
|
.br
|
|
Scaling characters like "m" or "k" are taken into respect.
|
|
All digits are interpreted as decimal, even if leading zeros are present.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g: /file/part_1_of_3_at_0_with_2047m_of_5753194821
|
|
.br
|
|
No other files are allowed in the directory. All parts have to be present and
|
|
their numbers have to be plausible. E.g. byte_count must be valid as \-cut_out
|
|
parameter and their contents may not overlap.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B File manipulations:
|
|
.PP
|
|
The following commands manipulate files in the ISO image, regardless whether
|
|
they stem from the loaded image or were newly inserted.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-iso_rr_pattern\fR "on"|"ls"|"off"
|
|
Set the pattern expansion mode for the iso_rr_path parameters of several
|
|
commands which support this feature.
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "off" disables pattern expansion for all commands which are marked
|
|
in this man page by "iso_rr_path [***]" or "iso_rr_pattern [***]".
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "on" enables it for all those commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "ls" enables it only for those which are marked by
|
|
"iso_rr_pattern [***]".
|
|
.br
|
|
Default is "on".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rm\fR iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Delete the given files from the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note: This does not free any space on the \-indev medium, even if
|
|
the deletion is committed to that same medium.
|
|
.br
|
|
The image size will shrink if the image is written to a different
|
|
medium in modification mode.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rm_r\fR iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Delete the given files or directory trees from the ISO image.
|
|
See also the note with command \-rm.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rmdir\fR iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Delete empty directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mv\fR iso_rr_path [***] iso_rr_path
|
|
Rename the given file objects in the ISO tree to the last
|
|
parameter in the list. Use the same rules as with shell command mv.
|
|
.br
|
|
If pattern expansion is enabled and if the last parameter contains wildcard
|
|
characters then it must match exactly one existing file address, or else the
|
|
command fails with a FAILURE event.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chown\fR uid iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Set ownership of file objects in the ISO image. uid may either be a decimal
|
|
number or the name of a user known to the operating system.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chown_r\fR uid iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-chown but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chgrp\fR gid iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Set group attribute of file objects in the ISO image. gid may either be a
|
|
decimal number or the name of a group known to the operating system.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chgrp_r\fR gid iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-chgrp but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chmod\fR mode iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Equivalent to shell command chmod in the ISO image.
|
|
mode is either an octal number beginning with "0" or a comma separated
|
|
list of statements of the form [ugoa]*[+\-=][rwxst]* .
|
|
.br
|
|
Like: go\-rwx,u+rwx .
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBPersonalities\fR:
|
|
u=user, g=group, o=others, a=all
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBOperators\fR:
|
|
+ adds given permissions, \- revokes given permissions,
|
|
= revokes all old permissions and then adds the given ones.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBPermissions\fR:
|
|
r=read, w=write, x=execute|inspect, s=setuid|setgid, t=sticky bit
|
|
.br
|
|
For octal numbers see man 2 stat.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-chmod_r\fR mode iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-chmod but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfacl\fR acl_text iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Attach the given ACL to the given iso_rr_paths. If the files already have
|
|
ACLs, then those get deleted before the new ones get into effect.
|
|
If acl_text is empty, or contains the text "clear" or the text
|
|
"\-\-remove\-all",
|
|
then the existing ACLs will be removed and no new ones will be
|
|
attached. Any other content of acl_text will be interpreted as a list of
|
|
ACL entries. It may be in the long multi\-line format as put out by \-getfacl
|
|
but may also be abbreviated as follows:
|
|
.br
|
|
ACL entries are separated by comma or newline. If an entry is empty text or
|
|
begins with "#" then it will be ignored. A valid entry has to begin
|
|
by a letter out of {ugom} for "user", "group", "other", "mask". It has to
|
|
contain two colons ":". A non\-empty text between those ":" gives a user id
|
|
resp. group id. After the second ":" there may be letters out of {rwx\- #}.
|
|
The first three give read, write resp. execute permission.
|
|
Letters "\-", " " and TAB are ignored. "#" causes the rest of the entry to
|
|
be ignored. Letter "X" or any other letters are not supported. Examples:
|
|
.br
|
|
g:toolies:rw,u:lisa:rw,u:1001:rw,u::wr,g::r,o::r,m::rw
|
|
.br
|
|
group:toolies:rw\-,user::rw\-,group::r\-\-,other::r\-\-,mask::rw\-
|
|
.br
|
|
A valid entry may be prefixed by "d", some following characters and ":".
|
|
This indicates that the entry goes to the "default" ACL rather than to the
|
|
"access" ACL. Example:
|
|
.br
|
|
u::rwx,g::rx,o::,d:u::rwx,d:g::rx,d:o::,d:u:lisa:rwx,d:m::rwx
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfacl_r\fR acl_text iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-setfacl but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfacl_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Read the output of \-getfacl_r or shell command getfacl \-R and apply it to the
|
|
iso_rr_paths as given in lines beginning with "# file:". This will change
|
|
ownership, group and ACL of the given files.
|
|
If disk_path is "\-" then lines are read from standard input. Line "@" ends the
|
|
list, "@@@" aborts without changing the pending iso_rr_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
Since \-getfacl and getfacl \-R strip leading "/" from file paths, the setting of
|
|
\-cd does always matter.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfattr\fR [-]name value iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Attach the given xattr pair of name and value to the given iso_rr_paths.
|
|
If the given name is prefixed by "\-", then the pair with that name gets
|
|
removed from the xattr list. If name is "\-\-remove\-all"
|
|
then all user namespace
|
|
xattr of the given iso_rr_paths get deleted. In case of deletion, value must
|
|
be an empty text.
|
|
.br
|
|
Only names from the user namespace are allowed. I.e. a name has to begin with
|
|
"user.", like "user.x" or "user.whatever".
|
|
.br
|
|
Values and names undergo the normal input processing of \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
See also command \-backslash_codes. Other than with command \-setfattr_list,
|
|
the byte value 0 cannot be expressed via \-setfattr.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfattr_r\fR [-]name value iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-setfattr but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-setfattr_list\fR disk_path
|
|
Read the output of \-getfattr_r or shell command getfattr \-Rd and apply it to
|
|
the iso_rr_paths as given in lines beginning with "# file:". All previously
|
|
existing user space xattr of the given iso_rr_paths will be deleted.
|
|
If disk_path is "\-" then lines are read from standard input.
|
|
.br
|
|
Since \-getfattr and getfattr \-Rd strip leading "/" from file paths, the setting
|
|
of \-cd does always matter.
|
|
.br
|
|
Empty input lines and lines which begin by "#" will be ignored
|
|
(except "# file:"). Line "@" ends the list, "@@@" aborts without changing
|
|
the pending iso_rr_path. Other input lines must have the form
|
|
.br
|
|
name="value"
|
|
.br
|
|
Name must be from user namespace. I.e. user.xyz where xyz should consist of
|
|
printable characters only. The separator "=" is not allowed in names.
|
|
Value may contain any kind of bytes. It must be in quotes. Trailing
|
|
whitespace after the end quote will be ignored. Non\-printables bytes and quotes
|
|
must be represented as \\XYZ by their octal 8\-bit code XYZ.
|
|
Use code \\000 for 0\-bytes.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-alter_date\fR type timestring iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Alter the date entries of a file in the ISO image. type is
|
|
one of "a", "m", "b" for access time, modification time,
|
|
both times.
|
|
.br
|
|
timestring may be in the following formats
|
|
(see also section EXAMPLES):
|
|
.br
|
|
As expected by program date:
|
|
MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
|
|
.br
|
|
As produced by program date:
|
|
.br
|
|
[Day] MMM DD hh:mm:ss [TZON] YYYY
|
|
.br
|
|
Relative times counted from current clock time:
|
|
.br
|
|
+|\-Number["s"|"h"|"d"|"w"|"m"|"y"]
|
|
.br
|
|
where "s" means seconds, "h" hours, "d" days, "w" weeks, "m"=30d,
|
|
"y"=365.25d plus 1d added to multiplication result.
|
|
.br
|
|
Absolute seconds counted from Jan 1 1970:
|
|
.br
|
|
=Number
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR's own timestamps:
|
|
.br
|
|
YYYY.MM.DD[.hh[mm[ss]]]
|
|
.br
|
|
scdbackup timestamps:
|
|
.br
|
|
YYMMDD[.hhmm[ss]]
|
|
.br
|
|
where "A0" is year 2000, "B0" is 2010, etc.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-alter_date_r\fR type timestring iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-alter_date but affecting all files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-hide\fR hide_state iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Prevent the names of the given files from showing up in the directory trees
|
|
of ISO 9660 and/or Joliet when the image gets written.
|
|
The data content of such hidden files will be included in the
|
|
resulting image, even if they do not show up in any directory.
|
|
But you will need own means to find nameless data in the image.
|
|
.br
|
|
Warning: Data which are hidden from the ISO 9660 tree will not be copied
|
|
by the write method of modifying.
|
|
.br
|
|
Possible values of hide_state are: "iso_rr" for hiding from ISO 9660 tree,
|
|
"joliet" for Joliet tree, "on" for both trees. "off" means visibility in
|
|
both directory trees.
|
|
.br
|
|
This command does not apply to the boot catalog.
|
|
Rather use: \-boot_image "any" "cat_hidden=on"
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Tree traversal command -find:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-find\fR iso_rr_path [test [op] [test ...]] [-exec action [params]] --
|
|
A restricted substitute for shell command find in the ISO image.
|
|
It performs an action on matching file objects at or below iso_rr_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
If not used as last command in the line then the parameter list
|
|
needs to get terminated by "\-\-".
|
|
.br
|
|
Tests are optional. If they are omitted then action is applied to all file
|
|
objects. If tests are given then they form together an expression.
|
|
The action is applied only if the expression matches the file object. Default
|
|
expression operator between tests is \-and, i.e. the expression matches only
|
|
if all its tests match.
|
|
.br
|
|
Available tests are:
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-name\fR pattern :
|
|
Matches if pattern matches the file leaf name.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-wholename\fR pattern :
|
|
Matches if pattern matches the file path as it would be printed by action
|
|
"echo". Character '/' is not special but can be matched by wildcards.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-disk_name\fR pattern :
|
|
Like \-name but testing the leaf name of the file source on disk.
|
|
Can be true only for data files which stem not from the loaded image.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-type\fR type_letter :
|
|
Matches files of the given type:
|
|
"block", "char", "dir", "pipe", "file", "link", "socket", "eltorito",
|
|
and "Xotic" which matches what is not matched by the other types.
|
|
.br
|
|
Only the first letter is interpreted. E.g.: \-find / \-type d
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-damaged\fR :
|
|
Matches files which use data blocks marked as damaged by a previous
|
|
run of \-check_media. The damage info vanishes when a new ISO image gets
|
|
loaded.
|
|
.br
|
|
Note that a MD5 session mismatch marks all files of the session as damaged.
|
|
If finer distinction is desired, perform \-md5 off before \-check_media.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-pending_data\fR :
|
|
Matches files which get their content from outside the loaded ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-lba_range\fR start_lba block_count :
|
|
Matches files which use data blocks within the range of start_lba
|
|
and start_lba+block_count\-1.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_acl\fR :
|
|
Matches files which have a non\-trivial ACL.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_xattr\fR :
|
|
Matches files which have xattr name\-value pairs from user namespace.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_aaip\fR :
|
|
Matches files which have ACL or any xattr.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_any_xattr\fR :
|
|
Matches files which have any xattr other than ACL.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_md5\fR :
|
|
Matches data files which have MD5 checksums.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-has_filter\fR :
|
|
Matches files which are filtered by \-set_filter.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-hidden\fR hide_state :
|
|
Matches files which are hidden in "iso_rr" tree, in "joliet" tree,
|
|
in both trees ("on"), or not hidden in any tree ("off").
|
|
Those which are hidden in some tree match \-not \-hidden "off".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-prune\fR :
|
|
If this test is reached and the tested file is a directory then \-find will not
|
|
dive into that directory. This test itself does always match.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-decision\fR "yes"|"no" :
|
|
If this test is reached then the evaluation ends immediately and action
|
|
is performed if the decision is "yes" or "true". See operator \-if.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-true\fR and \fB\-false\fR :
|
|
Always match resp. match not. Evaluation goes on.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-sort_lba\fR :
|
|
Always match. This causes \-find to perform its action in a sequence sorted by
|
|
the ISO image block addresses of the files. It may improve throughput with
|
|
actions which read data from optical drives. Action will always get the
|
|
absolute path as parameter.
|
|
.br
|
|
Available operators are:
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-not\fR :
|
|
Matches if the next test or sub expression does not match.
|
|
Several tests do this specifically:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-undamaged, \-lba_range with negative start_lba, \-has_no_acl, \-has_no_xattr,
|
|
\-has_no_aaip, \-has_no_filter .
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-and\fR :
|
|
Matches if both neighboring tests or expressions match.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-or\fR :
|
|
Matches if at least one of both neighboring tests or expressions matches.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-sub\fR ... \fB\-subend\fR or \fB(\fR ... \fB)\fR :
|
|
Enclose a sub expression which gets evaluated first before it
|
|
is processed by neighboring operators.
|
|
Normal precedence is: \-not, \-or , \-and.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fB\-if\fR ... \fB\-then\fR\ ... \fB\-elseif\fR ... \fB\-then\fR ...
|
|
\fB\-else\fR ... \fB\-endif\fR :
|
|
Enclose one or more sub expressions. If the \-if expression matches, then
|
|
the \-then expression is evaluated as the result of the whole expression
|
|
up to \-endif. Else the next \-elseif expression is evaluated and if it matches,
|
|
its \-then expression. Finally in case of no match, the \-else expression
|
|
is evaluated.
|
|
There may be more than one \-elseif. Neither \-else nor \-elseif are mandatory.
|
|
If \-else is missing and would be hit, then the result is a non\-match.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-if\-expressions are the main use case for above test \-decision.
|
|
|
|
Default action is \fBecho\fR,
|
|
i.e. to print the address of the found file. Other actions are certain
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR commands which get performed on the found files.
|
|
These commands
|
|
may have specific parameters. See also their particular descriptions.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchown\fR and \fBchown_r\fR
|
|
change the ownership and get the user id
|
|
as parameter. E.g.: \-exec chown thomas \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchgrp\fR and \fBchgrp_r\fR
|
|
change the group attribute and get the group id
|
|
as parameter. E.g.: \-exec chgrp_r staff \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchmod\fR and \fBchmod_r\fR
|
|
change access permissions and get a mode string
|
|
as parameter. E.g.: \-exec chmod a\-w,a+r \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBalter_date\fR and \fBalter_date_r\fR
|
|
change the timestamps. They get a type
|
|
character and a timestring as parameters.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-exec alter_date "m" "Dec 30 19:34:12 2007" \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBlsdl\fR
|
|
prints file information like shell command ls \-dl.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBcompare\fR
|
|
performs command \-compare with the found file address as
|
|
iso_rr_path and the corresponding file address below its parameter
|
|
disk_path_start. For this the iso_rr_path of the \-find command gets
|
|
replaced by the disk_path_start.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-find /thomas \-exec compare /home/thomas \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBupdate\fR
|
|
performs command \-update with the found file address as
|
|
iso_rr_path. The corresponding file address is determined like with above
|
|
action "compare".
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|
.br
|
|
\fBupdate_merge\fR
|
|
is like update but does not delete the found file if it is missing on disk.
|
|
It may be run several times and records with all visited files whether their
|
|
counterpart on disk has already been seen by one of the update_merge runs.
|
|
Finally, a \-find run with action "rm_merge" may remove all files that
|
|
saw no counterpart on disk.
|
|
.br
|
|
Up to the next "rm_merge" or "clear_merge" all newly inserted files will
|
|
get marked as having a disk counterpart.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBrm\fR
|
|
removes the found iso_rr_path from the image if it is not a directory
|
|
with files in it. I.e. this "rm" includes "rmdir".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBrm_r\fR
|
|
removes the found iso_rr_path from the image, including whole
|
|
directory trees.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBrm_merge\fR
|
|
removes the found iso_rr_path if it was visited by one or more previous actions
|
|
"update_merge" and saw no counterpart on disk in any of them. The marking from
|
|
the update actions is removed in any case.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBclear_merge\fR
|
|
removes an eventual marking from action "update_merge".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBreport_damage\fR
|
|
classifies files whether they hit a data block that is
|
|
marked as damaged. The result is printed together with the address
|
|
of the first damaged byte, the maximum span of damages, file size, and the
|
|
path of the file.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBreport_lba\fR
|
|
prints files which are associated to image data blocks.
|
|
It tells the logical block address, the block number, the byte size,
|
|
and the path of each file. There may be reported more than one
|
|
line per file if the file is very large. In this case each line has a
|
|
different extent number in column "xt".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBgetfacl\fR
|
|
prints access permissions in ACL text form to the result channel.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBsetfacl\fR
|
|
attaches ACLs after removing existing ones. The new
|
|
ACL is given in text form as defined with command \-setfacl.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-exec setfacl u:lisa:rw,u::rw,g::r,o::\-,m::rw \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBgetfattr\fR
|
|
prints xattr name\-value pairs from user namespace
|
|
to the result channel.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBget_any_xattr\fR
|
|
prints xattr name\-value pairs from any namespace
|
|
except ACL to the result channel. This is mostly for debugging of
|
|
namespace "isofs".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBlist_extattr\fR mode
|
|
prints a script to the result channel, which would use FreeBSD command
|
|
setextattr to set the file's xattr name\-value pairs of user namespace.
|
|
Parameter mode controls the form of the output of names and values.
|
|
Default mode "e" prints harmless characters in shell quotation marks,
|
|
but represents texts with octal 001 to 037 and 0177 to 0377 by an embedded
|
|
echo \-e command.
|
|
Mode "q" prints any characters in shell quotation marks. This might not be
|
|
terminal\-safe but should work in script files.
|
|
Mode "r" uses no quotation marks. Not safe.
|
|
Mode "b" prints backslash encoding. Not suitable for shell parsing.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g. \-exec list_extattr e \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
Command \-backslash_codes does not affect the output.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBget_md5\fR
|
|
prints the MD5 sum, if recorded, together with file path.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBcheck_md5\fR
|
|
compares the MD5 sum, if recorded, with the file content
|
|
and reports if mismatch.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-find / \-not \-pending_data \-exec check_md5 FAILURE \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmake_md5\fR
|
|
equips a data file with an MD5 sum of its content. Useful to
|
|
upgrade the files in the loaded image to full MD5 coverage by the next
|
|
commit with \-md5 "on".
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-find / \-type f \-not \-has_md5 \-exec make_md5 \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBsetfattr\fR
|
|
sets or deletes xattr name value pairs.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-find / \-has_xattr \-exec setfattr \-\-remove\-all '' \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBset_filter\fR
|
|
applies or removes filters.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-exec set_filter \-\-zisofs \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmkisofs_r\fR
|
|
applies the rules of mkisofs \-r to the file object:
|
|
.br
|
|
user id and group id become 0, all r\-permissions get granted, all w denied.
|
|
If there is any x\-permission, then all three x get granted.
|
|
s\- and t\-bits get removed.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBsort_weight\fR
|
|
attributes a LBA weight number to regular files.
|
|
.br
|
|
The number may range from \-2147483648 to 2147483647. The higher it is, the
|
|
lower will be the block address of the file data in the emerging ISO image.
|
|
Currently the boot catalog has a hardcoded weight of 1 billion.
|
|
Normally it should occupy the block with the lowest possible address.
|
|
Data files get added or loaded with initial weight 0.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-exec sort_weight 3 \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBshow_stream\fR
|
|
shows the content stream chain of a data file.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBhide\fR
|
|
brings the file into one of the hide states "on", "iso_rr", "joliet", "off".
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-find / \-disk_name *_secret \-exec hide on
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBestimate_size\fR
|
|
prints a lower and an upper estimation of the number of blocks which the
|
|
found files together will occupy in the emerging ISO image.
|
|
This does not account for the superblock,
|
|
for the directories in the \-find path, or for image padding.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBfind\fR
|
|
performs another run of \-find on the matching file address.
|
|
It accepts the same params as \-find, except iso_rr_path.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-find / \-name '???' \-type d \-exec find \-name '[abc]*' \-exec chmod a\-w,a+r \-\-
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Filters for data file content:
|
|
.PP
|
|
\fBFilters\fR may be installed between data files in the ISO image and their
|
|
content source outside the image. They may also be used vice versa between
|
|
data content in the image and target files on disk.
|
|
.br
|
|
Built\-in filters are "\-\-zisofs" and
|
|
"\-\-zisofs\-decode". The former is to be
|
|
applied via \-set_filter, the latter is automatically applied if zisofs
|
|
compressed content is detected with a file when loading the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
Another built\-in filter pair is "\-\-gzip"
|
|
and "\-\-gunzip" with suffix ".gz".
|
|
They behave about like external gzip and gunzip but avoid forking a process
|
|
for each single file. So they are much faster if there are many small files.
|
|
.PP
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-external_filter\fR name option[:option] program_path [arguments] --
|
|
Register a content filter by associating a name with a program path,
|
|
program arguments, and some behavioral options. Once registered it can be
|
|
applied to multiple data files in the ISO image, regardless whether their
|
|
content resides in the loaded ISO image or in the local filesystem.
|
|
External filter processes may produce synthetic file content by reading the
|
|
original content from stdin and writing to stdout whatever they want.
|
|
They must deliver the same output on the same input in repeated runs.
|
|
.br
|
|
Options are:
|
|
.br
|
|
"default" means that no other option is intended.
|
|
.br
|
|
"suffix=..." sets a file name suffix. If it is not empty then it will be
|
|
appended to the file name or removed from it.
|
|
.br
|
|
"remove_suffix" will remove a file name suffix
|
|
rather than appending it.
|
|
.br
|
|
"if_nonempty" will leave 0\-sized files unfiltered.
|
|
.br
|
|
"if_reduction" will try filtering and revoke it if the content size does not
|
|
shrink.
|
|
.br
|
|
"if_block_reduction" will revoke if the number of 2 kB blocks does not shrink.
|
|
.br
|
|
"used=..." is ignored. Command \-status shows it with the number of
|
|
files which currently have the filter applied.
|
|
.br
|
|
Examples:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-external_filter bzip2 suffix=.bz2:if_block_reduction \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/usr/bin/bzip2 \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\-external_filter bunzip2 suffix=.bz2:remove_suffix \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/usr/bin/bunzip2 \-\-
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-unregister_filter\fR name
|
|
Remove an \-external_filter registration. This is only possible if the filter
|
|
is not applied to any file in the ISO image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-close_filter_list\fR
|
|
Irrevocably ban commands \-external_filter and \-unregister_filter,
|
|
but not \-set_filter. Use this to prevent external filtering in general or
|
|
when all intended filters are registered.
|
|
External filters may also be banned totally at compile time of
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
By default they are banned if \fBxorriso\fR runs under setuid permission.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-set_filter\fR name iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Apply an \-external_filter or a built\-in filter to the given data files in the
|
|
ISO image.
|
|
If the filter suffix is not empty , then it will be applied to the file name.
|
|
Renaming only happens if the filter really gets attached and is not revoked by
|
|
its options.
|
|
By default files which already bear the suffix will not get filtered. The
|
|
others will get the suffix appended to their names.
|
|
If the filter has option "remove_suffix", then the filter will only be
|
|
applied if the suffix is present and can be removed.
|
|
Name oversize or collision caused by suffix change will prevent filtering.
|
|
.br
|
|
With most filter types this command will immediately run the filter once for
|
|
each file in order to determine the output size.
|
|
Content reading operations like \-extract , \-compare and image generation will
|
|
perform further filter runs and deliver filtered content.
|
|
.br
|
|
At image generation time the filter output must still be the same as the
|
|
output from the first run. Filtering for image generation does not happen
|
|
with files from the loaded ISO image if the write method of growing is in
|
|
effect (i.e \-indev and \-outdev are identical).
|
|
.br
|
|
The reserved filter name "\-\-remove\-all\-filters" revokes
|
|
filtering. This will revoke suffix renamings as well.
|
|
Use "\-\-remove\-all\-filters+" to
|
|
prevent any suffix renaming.
|
|
.br
|
|
Attaching or detaching filters will not alter the state of \-changes_pending.
|
|
If the filter manipulations shall be the only changes in a write run, then
|
|
explicitely execute \-changes_pending "yes".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-set_filter_r\fR name iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-set_filter but affecting all data files below eventual directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Writing the result, drive control:
|
|
.PP
|
|
(see also paragraph about settings below)
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rollback\fR
|
|
Discard the manipulated ISO image and reload it from \-indev.
|
|
(Use \-rollback_end if immediate program end is desired.)
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-changes_pending\fR "no"|"yes"|"mkisofs_printed"|"show_status"
|
|
Write runs are performed only if a change of the image has been made
|
|
since the image was loaded or created blank. Vice versa the program will
|
|
start a write run for pending changes when it ends normally (i.e. not by abort
|
|
and not by command \-rollback_end).
|
|
.br
|
|
The command \-changes_pending can be used to override the automatically
|
|
determined state. This is mainly useful for setting state "yes" despite
|
|
no real changes were made. The sequence \-changes_pending "no" \-end
|
|
is equivalent to the command \-rollback_end. State "mkisofs_printed"
|
|
is caused by emulation command \-as mkisofs if option \-print\-size is present.
|
|
.br
|
|
The pseudo\-state "show_status" can be used to print the current state to result
|
|
channel.
|
|
.br
|
|
Image loading or manipulations which happen after this command will again
|
|
update automatically the change status of the image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-commit\fR
|
|
Perform the write operation. Afterwards, if \-outdev is readable, make it
|
|
the new \-dev and load the image from there.
|
|
Switch to growing mode.
|
|
(A subsequent \-outdev will activate modification mode or blind growing.)
|
|
\-commit is performed automatically at end of program if there
|
|
are uncommitted manipulations pending.
|
|
.br
|
|
So, to perform a final write operation with no new \-dev
|
|
and no new loading of image, rather execute command \-end.
|
|
If you want to go on without image loading, execute \-commit_eject "none".
|
|
To eject after write without image loading, use \-commit_eject "all".
|
|
.br
|
|
To suppress a final write, execute \-rollback_end.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Writing can last quite a while. It is not unnormal with several
|
|
types of media that there is no progress visible for the first
|
|
few minutes or that the drive gnaws on the medium for a few
|
|
minutes after all data have been transmitted.
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR and the drives are in a client\-server relationship.
|
|
The drives have much freedom about what to do with the media.
|
|
Some combinations of drives and media simply do not work,
|
|
despite the promises by their vendors.
|
|
If writing fails then try other media or another drive. The reason
|
|
for such failure is hardly ever in the code of the various
|
|
burn programs but you may well try some of those listed below
|
|
under SEE ALSO.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-eject\fR "in"|"out"|"all"
|
|
Eject the medium in \-indev, resp. \-outdev, resp. both drives.
|
|
Note: It is not possible yet to effectively eject disk files.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-commit_eject\fR "in"|"out"|"all"|"none"
|
|
Combined \-commit and \-eject. When writing has finished do not make
|
|
\-outdev the new \-dev, and load no ISO image. Rather eject
|
|
\-indev and/or \-outdev. Give up any non\-ejected drive.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-blank\fR mode
|
|
Make media ready for writing from scratch (if not \-dummy is activated).
|
|
.br
|
|
This affects only the \-outdev not the \-indev.
|
|
If both drives are the same and if the ISO image was altered
|
|
then this command leads to a FAILURE event.
|
|
Defined modes are:
|
|
as_needed, fast, all, deformat, deformat_quickest
|
|
.br
|
|
"as_needed" cares for used CD\-RW, DVD\-RW and for used overwriteable media
|
|
by applying \-blank "fast". It applies \-format "full" to yet unformatted
|
|
DVD\-RAM and BD\-RE. Other media in blank state are gracefully ignored.
|
|
Media which cannot be made ready for writing from scratch cause a FAILURE
|
|
event.
|
|
.br
|
|
"fast" makes CD\-RW and unformatted DVD\-RW re\-usable, or invalidates
|
|
overwriteable ISO images. "all" might work more thoroughly and need more time.
|
|
.br
|
|
"deformat" converts overwriteable DVD\-RW into unformatted ones.
|
|
.br
|
|
"deformat_quickest" is a faster way to deformat or blank DVD\-RW
|
|
but produces media which are only suitable for a single session.
|
|
Some drives announce this state by not offering feature 21h,
|
|
but some drives offer it anyway.
|
|
If feature 21h is missing, then \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
will refuse to write on DVD\-RW if not command \-close is set to "on".
|
|
.br
|
|
The progress reports issued by some drives while blanking are
|
|
quite unrealistic. Do not conclude success or failure from the
|
|
reported percentages. Blanking was successful if no SORRY event or
|
|
worse occured.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-format\fR mode
|
|
Convert unformatted DVD\-RW into overwriteable ones, "de\-ice" DVD+RW, format
|
|
newly purchased BD\-RE or BD\-R, re\-format DVD\-RAM or BD\-RE.
|
|
.br
|
|
Defined modes are:
|
|
.br
|
|
as_needed, full, fast, by_index_<num>, fast_by_index_<num>
|
|
.br
|
|
"as_needed" formats yet unformatted DVD\-RW, DVD\-RAM, BD\-RE, or blank
|
|
unformatted BD\-R. Other media are left untouched.
|
|
.br
|
|
"full" (re\-)formats DVD\-RW, DVD+RW, DVD\-RAM, BD\-RE, or blank unformatted BD\-R.
|
|
.br
|
|
"fast" does the same as "full" but tries to be quicker.
|
|
.br
|
|
"by_index_" selects a format out of the descriptor list issued by command
|
|
\-list_formats. The index number from that list is to be appended to the
|
|
mode word. E.g: "by_index_3".
|
|
.br
|
|
"fast_by_index_" does the same as "by_index_" but tries to be quicker.
|
|
.br
|
|
"by_size_" selects a format out of the descriptor list which provides at
|
|
least the given size. That size is to be appended to the mode word.
|
|
E.g: "by_size_4100m". This applies to media with Defect Management.
|
|
.br
|
|
"fast_by_size_" does the same as "by_size_" but tries to be quicker.
|
|
.br
|
|
The formatting action has no effect on media if \-dummy is activated.
|
|
.br
|
|
Formatting is normally needed only once during the lifetime of a medium,
|
|
if ever. But it is a reason for re\-formatting if:
|
|
.br
|
|
DVD\-RW was deformatted by \-blank,
|
|
.br
|
|
DVD+RW has read failures (re\-format before next write),
|
|
.br
|
|
DVD\-RAM or BD\-RE shall change their amount of defect reserve.
|
|
.br
|
|
BD\-R may be written unformatted or may be formatted before first use.
|
|
Formatting activates Defect Management which tries to catch and repair
|
|
bad spots on media during the write process at the expense of half speed
|
|
even with flawless media.
|
|
.br
|
|
The progress reports issued by some drives while formatting are
|
|
quite unrealistic. Do not conclude success or failure from the
|
|
reported percentages. Formatting was successful if no SORRY event
|
|
or worse occured. Be patient with apparently frozen progress.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_formats\fR
|
|
Put out a list of format descriptors as reported by the output drive for
|
|
the current medium. The list gives the index number after "Format idx",
|
|
a MMC format code, the announced size in blocks (like "2236704s")
|
|
and the same size in MiB.
|
|
.br
|
|
MMC format codes are manifold. Most important are:
|
|
"00h" general formatting, "01h" increases reserve space for DVD\-RAM,
|
|
"26h" for DVD+RW, "30h" for BD\-RE with reserve space,
|
|
"31h" for BD\-RE without reserve space, "32h" for BD\-R.
|
|
.br
|
|
Smaller format size with DVD\-RAM, BD\-RE, or BD\-R means more reserve space.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_speeds\fR
|
|
Put out a list of speed values as reported by the output drive with
|
|
the loaded medium. This does not necessarily mean that the medium is writable
|
|
or that these speeds are actually achievable. Especially the
|
|
lists reported with empty drive or with ROM media obviously advertise
|
|
speeds for other media.
|
|
.br
|
|
It is not mandatory to use speed values out of the listed range.
|
|
The drive is supposed to choose a safe speed that is as near to the desired
|
|
speed as possible.
|
|
.br
|
|
At the end of the list, "Write speed L" and "Write speed H"
|
|
are the best guesses for lower and upper speed limit.
|
|
"Write speed l" and "Write speed h" may appear only with CD
|
|
and eventually override the list of other speed offers.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-close_damaged\fR "as_needed"|"force"
|
|
Try to close the upcomming track and session if the drive reported the medium
|
|
as damaged. This may apply to CD\-R, CD\-RW, DVD\-R, DVD\-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL,
|
|
or BD\-R media. It is indicated by warning messages when the drive gets
|
|
acquired, and by a remark "but next track is damaged" with the line
|
|
"Media status :" of command \-toc.
|
|
.br
|
|
The setting of command \-close determines whether the medium stays appendable.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "as_needed" gracefully refuses on media which are not reported as
|
|
damaged. Mode "force" attempts the close operation even with media which
|
|
appear undamaged.
|
|
.br
|
|
No image changes are allowed to be pending before this command is performed.
|
|
After closing was attempted, both drives are given up.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_profiles\fR "in"|"out"|"all"
|
|
Put out a list of media types supported by \-indev, resp. \-outdev, resp. both.
|
|
The currently recognized type is marked by text "(current)".
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Settings for result writing:
|
|
.PP
|
|
Rock Ridge info will be generated by the program unconditionally.
|
|
ACLs will be written according to the setting of command \-acl.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-joliet\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
If enabled by "on", generate Joliet tree additional to ISO 9660 + Rock Ridge
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|
tree.
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.TP
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|
\fB\-compliance\fR rule[:rule...]
|
|
Adjust the compliance to specifications of ISO 9660/ECMA\-119 and its
|
|
contemporary extensions. In some
|
|
cases it is worth to deviate a bit in order to circumvent bugs of the intended
|
|
reader system or to get unofficial extra features.
|
|
.br
|
|
There are several adjustable rules which have a keyword each. If they
|
|
are mentioned with this command then their rule gets added to the relaxation
|
|
list. This list can be erased by rules "strict" or "clear". It can be reset
|
|
to its start setting by "default". All of the following relaxation rules
|
|
can be revoked individually by appending "_off". Like "deep_paths_off".
|
|
.br
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|
Rule keywords are:
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|
.br
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|
"iso_9660_level="number chooses level 1 with ECMA\-119 names of the form 8.3
|
|
and \-file_size_limit <= 4g \- 1, or level 2 with ECMA\-119 names up to
|
|
length 32 and the same \-file_size_limit, or level 3 with ECMA\-119 names up to
|
|
length 32 and \-file_size_limit >= 400g \-200k. If necessary \-file_size_limit
|
|
gets adjusted.
|
|
.br
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|
"allow_dir_id_ext" allows ECMA\-119 names of directories to have a name extension
|
|
as with other file types. It does not force dots and it omits the version
|
|
number, though. This is a bad tradition of mkisofs which violates ECMA\-119.
|
|
Especially ISO level 1 only allows 8 characters in a directory name and
|
|
not 8.3.
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.br
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|
"omit_version" does not add versions (";1") to ECMA\-119 and Joliet file names.
|
|
.br
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|
"only_iso_version" does not add versions (";1") to Joliet file names.
|
|
.br
|
|
"deep_paths" allows ECMA\-119 file paths deeper than 8 levels.
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|
.br
|
|
"long_paths" allows ECMA\-119 file paths longer than 255 characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
"long_names" allows up to 37 characters with ECMA\-119 file names.
|
|
.br
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|
"no_force_dots" does not add a dot to ECMA\-119 file names which have none.
|
|
.br
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|
"no_j_force_dots" does not add a dot to Joliet file names which have none.
|
|
.br
|
|
"lowercase" allows lowercase characters in ECMA\-119 file names.
|
|
.br
|
|
"7bit_ascii" allows nearly all 7\-bit characters in ECMA\-119 file names.
|
|
Not allowed are 0x0 and '/'. If not "lowercase" is enabled, then lowercase
|
|
letters get converted to uppercase.
|
|
.br
|
|
"full_ascii" allows all 8\-bit characters except 0x0 and '/'
|
|
in ECMA\-119 file names.
|
|
.br
|
|
"untranslated_names" might be dangerous for inadverted reader programs
|
|
which rely on the restriction to at most 37 characters in ECMA\-119 file names.
|
|
This rule allows ECMA\-119 file names up to 96 characters with no character
|
|
conversion. If a file name has more characters, then image production will
|
|
fail deliberately.
|
|
.br
|
|
"untranslated_name_len="number enables untranslated_names with a smaller limit
|
|
for the length of file names. 0 disables this feature, \-1 chooses maximum
|
|
length limit, numbers larger than 0 give the desired length limit.
|
|
.br
|
|
"joliet_long_names" allows Joliet leaf names up to 103 characters rather
|
|
than 64.
|
|
.br
|
|
"joliet_long_paths" allows Joliet paths longer than 240 characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
"always_gmt" stores timestamps in GMT representation with timezone 0.
|
|
.br
|
|
"rec_mtime" records with non\-RockRidge directory entries the disk file's
|
|
mtime and not the creation time of the image. This applies to the ECMA\-119
|
|
tree (plain ISO 9660), to Joliet, and to ISO 9660:1999. "rec_time" is
|
|
default. If disabled, it gets automatically re\-enabled by \-as mkisofs emulation
|
|
when a pathspec is encountered.
|
|
.br
|
|
"new_rr" uses Rock Ridge version 1.12 (suitable for GNU/Linux but not for older
|
|
FreeBSD or for Solaris). This implies "aaip_susp_1_10_off" which may be changed
|
|
by subsequent "aaip_susp_1_10".
|
|
.br
|
|
Default is "old_rr" which uses Rock Ridge version 1.10. This implies also
|
|
"aaip_susp_1_10" which may be changed by subsequent "aaip_susp_1_10_off".
|
|
.br
|
|
"aaip_susp_1_10" allows AAIP to be written as unofficial extension of RRIP
|
|
rather than as official extension under SUSP\-1.12.
|
|
.br
|
|
"no_emul_toc" saves 64 kB with the first session on overwriteable media
|
|
but makes the image incapable of displaying its session history.
|
|
.br
|
|
"iso_9660_1999" causes the production of an additional directory tree
|
|
compliant to ISO 9660:1999. It can record long filenames for readers which
|
|
do not understand Rock Ridge.
|
|
.br
|
|
"old_empty" uses the old way of of giving block addresses in the range
|
|
of [0,31] to files with no own data content. The new way is to have
|
|
a dedicated block to which all such files will point.
|
|
.br
|
|
Default setting is
|
|
.br
|
|
"clear:only_iso_version:deep_paths:long_paths:no_j_force_dots:
|
|
.br
|
|
always_gmt:old_rr".
|
|
.br
|
|
Note: The term "ECMA\-119 name" means the plain ISO 9660 names and attributes
|
|
which get visible if the reader ignores Rock Ridge.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rr_reloc_dir\fR name
|
|
Specify the name of the relocation directory in which deep directory subtrees
|
|
shall be placed if \-compliance is set to "deep_paths_off" or "long_paths_off".
|
|
A deep directory is one that has a chain of 8 parent directories (including
|
|
root) above itself, or one that contains a file with an ECMA\-119 path of more
|
|
than 255 characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
The overall directory tree will appear originally deep when interpreted
|
|
as Rock Ridge tree. It will appear as re\-arranged if only ECMA\-119
|
|
information is considered.
|
|
.br
|
|
The default relocation directory is the root directory. By giving a non\-empty
|
|
name with \-rr_reloc_dir, a directory in the root directory may get this role.
|
|
If that directory does not already exist at \-commit time, then it will get
|
|
created and marked for Rock Ridge as relocation artefact. At least on
|
|
GNU/Linux it will not be displayed in mounted Rock Ridge images.
|
|
.br
|
|
The name must not contain a '/' character and must not be longer than
|
|
255 bytes.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-volid\fR text
|
|
Specify the volume ID. \fBxorriso\fR accepts any text up to 32 characters,
|
|
but according to rarely obeyed specs stricter rules apply:
|
|
.br
|
|
ECMA\-119 demands ASCII characters out of [A\-Z0\-9_]. Like: "IMAGE_23"
|
|
.br
|
|
Joliet allows 16 UCS\-2 characters. Like: "Windows name"
|
|
.br
|
|
Be aware that the volume id might get used automatically as name of the
|
|
mount point when the medium is inserted into a playful computer system.
|
|
.br
|
|
If an ISO image gets loaded while the volume ID is set to default "ISOIMAGE"
|
|
or to "", then the volume ID of the loaded image will become the effective
|
|
volume id for the next write run. But as soon as command \-volid is performed
|
|
afterwards, this pending id is overridden by the new setting.
|
|
.br
|
|
Consider this when setting \-volid "ISOIMAGE" before executing \-dev, \-indev,
|
|
or \-rollback.
|
|
If you insist in \-volid "ISOIMAGE", set it again after those commands.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-volset_id\fR text
|
|
Set the volume set id string to be written with the next \-commit.
|
|
Permissible are up to 128 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-publisher\fR text
|
|
Set the publisher id string to be written with the next \-commit. This may
|
|
identify the person or organisation who specified what shall be recorded.
|
|
Permissible are up to 128 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-application_id\fR text
|
|
Set the application id string to be written with the next \-commit. This may
|
|
identify the specification of how the data are recorded.
|
|
Permissible are up to 128 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.br
|
|
The special text "@xorriso@" gets converted to the id string of
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR
|
|
which is normally written as \-preparer_id. It is a wrong tradition to write
|
|
the program id as \-application_id.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-system_id\fR text
|
|
Set the system id string to be written with the next \-commit. This may
|
|
identify the system which can recognize and act upon the content of the
|
|
System Area in image blocks 0 to 15.
|
|
Permissible are up to 32 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-volume_date\fR type timestring
|
|
Set one of the four overall timestamps for subsequent image writing.
|
|
Available types are:
|
|
.br
|
|
"c" time when the volume was created.
|
|
.br
|
|
"m" time when volume was last modified.
|
|
.br
|
|
"x" time when the information in the volume expires.
|
|
.br
|
|
"f" time since when the volume is effectively valid.
|
|
.br
|
|
"uuid" sets a timestring that overrides "c" and "m" times literally.
|
|
It must consist of 16 decimal digits which form YYYYMMDDhhmmsscc, with
|
|
YYYY between 1970 and 2999. Time zone is GMT.
|
|
It is supposed to match this GRUB line:
|
|
.br
|
|
search \-\-fs\-uuid \-\-set YYYY\-MM\-DD\-hh\-mm\-ss\-cc
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g. 2010040711405800 is 7 Apr 2010 11:40:58 (+0 centiseconds).
|
|
.br
|
|
Timestrings for the other types may be given as with command \-alter_date.
|
|
They are prone to timezone computations. The timestrings "default" or
|
|
"overridden" cause default settings: "c" and "m" will show the current time
|
|
of image creation. "x" and "f" will be marked as insignificant.
|
|
"uuid" will be deactivated.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-copyright_file\fR text
|
|
Set the copyright file name to be written with the next \-commit. This should
|
|
be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which contains a copyright
|
|
statement.
|
|
Permissible are up to 37 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-abstract_file\fR text
|
|
Set the abstract file name to be written with the next \-commit. This should
|
|
be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which contains an abstract
|
|
statement about the image content.
|
|
Permissible are up to 37 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-biblio_file\fR text
|
|
Set the biblio file name to be written with the next \-commit. This should
|
|
be the ISO 9660 path of a file in the image which contains bibliographic
|
|
records.
|
|
Permissible are up to 37 characters. This setting gets overridden by
|
|
image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-preparer_id\fR
|
|
Set the preparer id string to be written with the next \-commit. This may
|
|
identify the person or other entity which controls the preparation of the data
|
|
which shall be recorded. Normally this should be the id of \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
and not of the person or program which operates \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
Please avoid to change it. Permissible are up to 128 characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
The special text "@xorriso@" gets converted to the id string of
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR which is default at program startup.
|
|
.br
|
|
Unlike other id strings, this setting is not influenced by image loading.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-out_charset\fR character_set_name
|
|
Set the character set to which file names get converted when writing an
|
|
image. See paragraph "Character sets" for more explanations.
|
|
When loading the written image after \-commit the setting of \-out_charset
|
|
will be copied to \-in_charset.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-uid\fR uid
|
|
User id to be used for all files when the new ISO tree gets written to media.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-gid\fR gid
|
|
Group id to be used for all files when the new ISO tree gets written to media.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-zisofs\fR option[:options]
|
|
Set global parameters for zisofs compression. This data format is recognized
|
|
and transparently uncompressed by some Linux kernels. It is to be applied
|
|
via command \-set_filter with built\-in filter "\-\-zisofs".
|
|
Parameters are:
|
|
.br
|
|
"level="[0\-9] zlib compression: 0=none, 1=fast,..., 9=slow
|
|
.br
|
|
"block_size="32k|64k|128k size of compression blocks
|
|
.br
|
|
"by_magic=on" enables an expensive test at image generation time which checks
|
|
files from disk whether they already are zisofs compressed, e.g. by program
|
|
mkzftree.
|
|
.br
|
|
"default" same as "level=6:block_size=32k:by_magic=off"
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-speed\fR number[k|m|c|d|b]
|
|
Set the burn speed. Default is 0 = maximum speed.
|
|
Speed can be given in media dependent numbers or as a
|
|
desired throughput per second in MMC compliant kB (= 1000)
|
|
or MB (= 1000 kB). Media x\-speed factor can be set explicity
|
|
by "c" for CD, "d" for DVD, "b" for BD, "x" is optional.
|
|
.br
|
|
Example speeds:
|
|
.br
|
|
706k = 706kB/s = 4c = 4xCD
|
|
.br
|
|
5540k = 5540kB/s = 4d = 4xDVD
|
|
.br
|
|
If there is no hint about the speed unit attached, then the
|
|
medium in the \-outdev will decide. Default unit is CD = 176.4k.
|
|
.br
|
|
MMC drives usually activate their own idea of speed and take
|
|
the speed value given by the burn program only as upper limit
|
|
for their own decision.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-stream_recording\fR "on"|"off"|"full"|"data"|number
|
|
Setting "on" tries to circumvent the management of defects on DVD\-RAM, BD\-RE,
|
|
or BD\-R. Defect management keeps partly damaged media usable. But it reduces
|
|
write speed to half nominal speed even if the medium is in perfect shape.
|
|
For the case of flawless media, one may use \-stream_recording "on" to get
|
|
full speed.
|
|
.br
|
|
"full" tries full speed with all write operations, whereas "on" does this
|
|
only above byte address 32s. One may give a number of at least 16s
|
|
in order to set an own address limit.
|
|
.br
|
|
"data" causes full speed to start when superblock and directory entries are
|
|
written and writing of file content blocks begins.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dvd_obs\fR "default"|"32k"|"64k"
|
|
GNU/Linux specific:
|
|
Set the number of bytes to be transmitted with each write operation to DVD
|
|
or BD media. A number of 64 KB may improve throughput with bus systems which
|
|
show latency problems. The default depends on media type, on command
|
|
\-stream_recording , and on compile time options.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-stdio_sync\fR "on"|"off"|number
|
|
Set the number of bytes after which to force output to stdio: pseudo drives.
|
|
This forcing keeps the memory from being clogged with lots of
|
|
pending data for slow devices. Default "on" is the same as "16m".
|
|
Forced output can be disabled by "off".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dummy\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
If "on" then simulate burning or refuse with FAILURE event if
|
|
no simulation is possible, do neither blank nor format.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-fs\fR number["k"|"m"]
|
|
Set the size of the fifo buffer which smoothens the data
|
|
stream from ISO image generation to media burning. Default
|
|
is 4 MiB, minimum 64 kiB, maximum 1 GiB.
|
|
The number may be followed by letter "k" or "m"
|
|
which means unit is kiB (= 1024) or MiB (= 1024 kiB).
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-close\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
If "on" then mark the written medium as not appendable
|
|
any more (if possible at all with the given type of target media).
|
|
.br
|
|
This is the contrary of cdrecord, wodim, cdrskin command \-multi,
|
|
and is one aspect of growisofs option \-dvd\-compat.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-padding\fR number["k"|"m"]|"included"|"appended"
|
|
Append the given number of extra bytes to the image stream.
|
|
This is a traditional remedy for a traditional bug in block
|
|
device read drivers. Needed only for CD recordings in TAO mode.
|
|
Since one can hardly predict on what media an image might end up,
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR adds the traditional 300k of padding by default to
|
|
all images.
|
|
.br
|
|
For images which will never get to a CD it is safe to use \-padding 0 .
|
|
.br
|
|
Normally padding is not written as part of the ISO image but appended
|
|
after the image end. This is \-padding mode "appended".
|
|
.br
|
|
Emulation command \-as "mkisofs" and command \-jigdo cause padding to be
|
|
written as part of the image.
|
|
The same effect is achieved by \-padding mode "included".
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Bootable ISO images:
|
|
.PP
|
|
Contrary to published specifications many BIOSes will load an El Torito
|
|
record from the first session on media and not from the last one, which
|
|
gets mounted by default. This makes no problems with overwriteable media,
|
|
because they appear to inadverted readers as one single session.
|
|
.br
|
|
But with multi\-session media CD\-R[W], DVD\-R[W], DVD+R, it implies that the
|
|
whole bootable system has to reside already in the first session and that
|
|
the last session still has to bear all files which the booted system expects
|
|
after mounting the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
If a boot image from ISOLINUX or GRUB is known to be present on media then
|
|
it is advised to patch it
|
|
when a follow\-up session gets written. But one should not rely on the
|
|
capability to influence the bootability of the existing sessions, unless one
|
|
can assume overwriteable media.
|
|
.br
|
|
There are booting mechanisms which do not use an El Torito record but rather
|
|
start at the first bytes of the image: PC\-BIOS MBR for hard\-disk\-like devices,
|
|
MIPS Volume Header for old SGI computers, DEC Boot Block for old DECstation,
|
|
SUN Disk Label for SPARC machines.
|
|
.br
|
|
The boot firmware EFI may use programs which are located in a FAT filesystem
|
|
and announced by an MBR partition table entry.
|
|
.br
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-boot_image\fR "any"|"isolinux"|"grub"
|
|
.br
|
|
"discard"|"keep"|"patch"|"show_status"|bootspec|"next"
|
|
.br
|
|
Define the handling of a set of El Torito boot images which
|
|
has been read from an existing ISO image or define how to make a prepared
|
|
boot image file set bootable. Such file sets get produced by ISOLINUX or GRUB.
|
|
.br
|
|
Each \-boot_image command has two parameters: type and setting. More than one
|
|
\-boot_image command may be used to define the handling of one or more boot
|
|
images. Sequence matters.
|
|
.br
|
|
Types \fBisolinux\fR and \fBgrub\fR care for known peculiarities.
|
|
Type \fBany\fR makes
|
|
no assumptions about the origin of the boot images.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
El Torito boot images of any type can be newly inserted, or discarded,
|
|
or patched, or kept unaltered.
|
|
Whether to patch or to keep depends on whether
|
|
the boot images contain boot info tables.
|
|
.br
|
|
A boot info table needs to be patched when the boot image gets newly
|
|
introduced into the ISO image or if an existing image gets relocated.
|
|
This is automatically done if type "isolinux" or "grub"
|
|
is given, but not with "any".
|
|
.br
|
|
If patching is enabled, then boot images from previous sessions will
|
|
be checked whether they seem to bear a boot info table. If not,
|
|
then they stay unpatched. This check is not infallible. So if
|
|
you do know that the images need no patching, use "any" "keep".
|
|
"grub" "patch" will not patch EFI images (platform_id=0xef).
|
|
.br
|
|
Most safe is the default: \-boot_image "any" "discard".
|
|
.br
|
|
Advised for GRUB : \-boot_image "grub" "patch"
|
|
.br
|
|
For ISOLINUX : \-boot_image "isolinux" "patch"
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBshow_status\fR will print what is known about the loaded boot images
|
|
and their designated fate.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
A \fBbootspec\fR is a word of the form name=valuei. It is used to describe
|
|
the parameters of a boot image by an El Torito record or a MBR.
|
|
The names "dir", "bin_path", "efi_path" lead to El Torito bootable images.
|
|
Name "system_area" activates a given file as MBR.
|
|
.br
|
|
On all media types this is possible within the first session. In further
|
|
sessions an existing boot image can get replaced by a new one, but depending
|
|
on the media type this may have few effect at boot time. See above.
|
|
.br
|
|
The boot image and its supporting files have to be added to the ISO image by
|
|
normal means (image loading, \-map, \-add, ...). In case of ISOLINUX the files
|
|
should reside either in ISO image directory /isolinux or in /boot/isolinux .
|
|
In that case it suffices to use as bootspec the text "dir=/isolinux" or
|
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"dir=/boot/isolinux". E.g.:
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.br
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\-boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux
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.br
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which bundles these individual settings:
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.br
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\-boot_image isolinux bin_path=/boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin
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.br
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\-boot_image isolinux cat_path=/boot/isolinux/boot.cat
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.br
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\-boot_image isolinux load_size=2048
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.br
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\-boot_image any boot_info_table=on
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.br
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An El Torito boot catalog file gets inserted into the ISO image with address
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\fBcat_path=\fR at \-commit time.
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It is subject to normal \-overwrite and \-reassure processing if there is already
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a file with the same name.
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The catalog lists the boot images and is read by the boot facility to choose
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one of the boot images. But it is not necessary that it appears in the
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directory tree at all. One may hide it in all trees by \fBcat_hidden=on\fR.
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Other possible values are "iso_rr", "joliet", and the default "off".
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.br
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\fBbin_path=\fR depicts a boot image file, a binary program which is to be
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started by the hardware boot facility (e.g. the BIOS) at boot time.
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.br
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\fBefi_path=\fR depicts a boot image file that is ready for EFI booting.
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Its load_size is determined automatically, no boot info table gets
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written, no boot medium gets emulated, platform_id is 0xef.
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.br
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\fBemul_type=\fR can be one of "no_emulation", "hard_disk", "diskette".
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It controls the boot medium emulation code of a boot image.
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The default "no_emulation" is suitable for ISOLINUX, GRUB, FreeBSD cdboot.
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.br
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\fBload_size=\fR is a value which depends on the boot image.
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Default 2048 should be overridden only if a better value is known.
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.br
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\fBboot_info_table=on\fR may be used to apply patching to a boot image which
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is given by "any" "bin_path=". "boot_info_table=off" disables patching.
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.br
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\fBplatform_id=\fR defines by two hex digits the Platform ID of the
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boot image. "00" is 80x86 PC\-BIOS, "01" is PowerPC, "02" is Mac, "ef" is EFI.
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.br
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\fBid_string=\fRtext|56_hexdigits defines the ID string of the boot catalog
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|
section where the boot image will be listed. If the value consists of 56
|
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characters [0\-9A\-Fa\-f] then it is converted into 28 bytes, else the first
|
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28 characters become the ID string.
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The ID string of the first boot image becomes the overall catalog ID.
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It is limited to 24 characters. Other id_strings become section IDs.
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.br
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\fBsel_crit=\fRhexdigits defines the Selection Criteria of the boot image.
|
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Up to 20 bytes get read from the given characters [0\-9A\-Fa\-f].
|
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They get attributed to the boot image entry in the catalog.
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|
.br
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\fBnext\fR ends the definition of a boot image and starts a new one.
|
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Any following \-bootimage bootspecs will affect the new image.
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The first "next" discards loaded boot images and their catalog.
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.br
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\fBdiscard\fR gives up an existing boot catalog and its boot images.
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.br
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\fBkeep\fR keeps or copies boot images unaltered and writes a new catalog.
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|
.br
|
|
\fBpatch\fR applies patching to existing boot images
|
|
if they seem to bear a boot info table.
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.br
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\fBsystem_area=\fRdisk_path copies at most 32768 bytes from the given
|
|
disk file to the very start of the ISO image.
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This System Area is reserved for system dependent boot software, e.g. an MBR
|
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which can be used to boot from USB stick or hard disk.
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.br
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Other than a El Torito boot image, the file disk_path needs not to be added
|
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to the ISO image.
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|
.br
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|
\-boot_image isolinux system_area= implies "partition_table=on".
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.br
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\fBpartition_table=on\fR causes a simple partition table to be written
|
|
into bytes 446 to 511 of the System Area.
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|
.br
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With type "isolinux" it shows a partition that begins at byte 0 and it causes
|
|
the LBA of the first boot image to be written into the MBR. For the first
|
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session this works only if also "system_area=" and "bin_path=" or "dir="
|
|
is given.
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|
.br
|
|
With types "any" and "grub" it shows a single
|
|
partiton which starts at byte 512 and ends where the ISO image ends.
|
|
This works with or without system_area= or boot image.
|
|
.br
|
|
In follow\-up sessions the existing System Area is preserved by default.
|
|
If types "isolinux" or "grub" are set to "patch", then "partition_table=on"
|
|
is activated without new boot image.
|
|
In this case the existing System Area gets checked whether it bears addresses
|
|
and sizes as if it had been processed by "partition_table=on". If so,
|
|
then those parameters get updated when the new System Area is written.
|
|
.br
|
|
Special "system_area=/dev/zero" causes 32k of NUL\-bytes.
|
|
Use this to discard an MBR which was loaded with the ISO image.
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|
.br
|
|
\fBpartition_offset=\fR2kb_block_adr causes a partition table with a single
|
|
partition that begins at the given block address. This is counted in 2048 byte
|
|
blocks, not in 512 byte blocks. If the block address is non\-zero then it must
|
|
be at least 16. A non\-zero partition offset causes two superblocks to be
|
|
generated and two sets of directory trees. The image is then mountable from its
|
|
absolute start as well as from the partition start.
|
|
.br
|
|
The offset value of an ISO image gets preserved when a new session is added.
|
|
So the value defined here is only in effect if a new ISO image gets written.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBpartition_hd_cyl=\fRnumber gives the number of heads per cylinder for
|
|
the partition table. 0 chooses a default value. Maximum is 255.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBpartition_sec_hd=\fRnumber gives the number of sectors per head for
|
|
the partition table. 0 chooses a default value. Maximum is 63.
|
|
.br
|
|
The product partition_sec_hd * partition_hd_cyl * 512 is the cylinder size.
|
|
It should be divisible by 2048 in order to allow exact alignment.
|
|
If it is too small to describe the image size by at most 1024 cylinders,
|
|
then appropriate values of partition_hd_cyl are chosen with
|
|
partition_sec_hd 32 or 63. If the image is larger than 8,422,686,720 bytes,
|
|
then the cylinder size constraints cannot be fulfilled.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBpartition_cyl_align=\fRmode controls image size alignment to an integer
|
|
number of cylinders. It is prescribed by isohybrid specs and it seems to
|
|
please program fdisk. Cylinder size must be divisible by 2048.
|
|
Images larger than 8,323,596,288 bytes cannot be aligned.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "auto" is default. Alignment by padding happens only with
|
|
"isolinux" "partition_table=on".
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "on" causes alignment by padding with "partition_table=on" for any type.
|
|
Mode "off" disables alignment for any type.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmips_path=\fRiso_rr_path declares a data file in the image to be a
|
|
MIPS Big Endian boot file and causes production of a MIPS Big Endian Volume
|
|
Header. This is mutually exclusive with production of other boot blocks
|
|
like MBR.
|
|
It will overwrite the first 512 bytes of any data provided by system_area=.
|
|
Up to 15 boot files can be declared by mips_path=.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmipsel_path=\fRiso_rr_path declares a data file in the image to be the
|
|
MIPS Little Endian boot file. This is mutually exclusive with other boot
|
|
blocks.
|
|
It will overwrite the first 512 bytes of any data provided by system_area=.
|
|
Only a single boot file can be declared by mipsel_path=.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBsparc_label=\fRtext causes the production of a SUN Disk Label with the
|
|
given text as ASCII label. This boot block format allows to append images
|
|
for partitions 2 to 8. Partition 1 will always be the ISO image.
|
|
See command \-append_partition.
|
|
The first 512 bytes of any data provided by system_area= will be overwritten.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmips_discard\fR and \fBsparc_discard\fR revoke any boot file
|
|
declarations made by mips_path= or mipsel_path=. They also disable production
|
|
of SUN Disk Label.
|
|
This removes the ban on production of other boot blocks.
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-append_partition\fR partition_number type_code disk_path
|
|
Cause a prepared filesystem image to be appended to the ISO image and to be
|
|
described by a partition table entry in a boot block at the start of the
|
|
emerging ISO image. The partition entry will bear the size of the submitted
|
|
file rounded up to the next multiple of 2048 bytes.
|
|
.br
|
|
Beware of subsequent multi\-session runs. The appended partition will get
|
|
overwritten.
|
|
.br
|
|
Partitions may be appended with boot block type MBR and with SUN Disk Label.
|
|
.br
|
|
With MBR:
|
|
.br
|
|
partition_number may be 1 to 4. Number 1 will put the whole ISO image into
|
|
the unclaimed space before partition 1. So together with most \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
MBR features, number 2 would be the most natural choice.
|
|
.br
|
|
The type_code may be "FAT12", "FAT16", "Linux",
|
|
or a hexadecimal number between 0x00 and 0xff. Not all those numbers will
|
|
yield usable results. For a list of codes search the Internet for
|
|
"Partition Types" or run fdisk command "L".
|
|
.br
|
|
The disk_path must provide the necessary data bytes at commit time.
|
|
An empty disk_path disables this feature for the given partition number.
|
|
.br
|
|
With SUN Disk Label (selected by \-boot_image any sparc_label=):
|
|
.br
|
|
partition_number may be 2 to 8. Number 1 will always be the ISO image.
|
|
Partition start addresses are aligned to 320 KiB. The type_code does not
|
|
matter. Submit 0x0.
|
|
.br
|
|
Partition image name "." causes the partition to become a copy of the next
|
|
lower valid one.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Jigdo Template Extraction:
|
|
.PP
|
|
From man genisoimage:
|
|
"Jigdo is a tool to help in the distribution of large files like CD and
|
|
DVD images; see http://atterer.net/jigdo/ for more details. Debian CDs
|
|
and DVD ISO images are published on the web in jigdo format to allow
|
|
end users to download them more efficiently."
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR can produce a .jigdo and a .template file together with a
|
|
single\-session ISO image.
|
|
The .jigdo file contains checksums and symbolic file addresses.
|
|
The .template file contains the compressed ISO image with reference tags
|
|
instead of the content bytes of the listed files.
|
|
.br
|
|
Input for this process are the normal arguments for a \fBxorriso\fR session
|
|
on a blank \-outdev, and a .md5 file which lists those data files which may be
|
|
listed in the .jigdo file and externally referenced in the .template file.
|
|
Each designated file is represented in the .md5 file by a single text line:
|
|
.br
|
|
MD5 as 32 hex digits, 2 blanks, size as 12 decimal digits or blanks, 2 blanks,
|
|
symbolic file address
|
|
.br
|
|
The file address in an .md5 line has to bear the same basename as the
|
|
disk_path of the file which it shall match. The directory path of
|
|
the file address is decisive for To=From mapping, not for file recognition.
|
|
After To=From mapping, the file address gets written into the .jigdo
|
|
file. Jigdo restore tools will convert these addresses into really
|
|
reachable data source addresses from which they can read.
|
|
.br
|
|
If the list of jigdo parameters is not empty, then \fBxorriso\fR will
|
|
refuse to
|
|
write to non\-blank targets, it will disable multi\-session emulation, and
|
|
padding will be counted as part of the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-jigdo\fR parameter_name value
|
|
Clear Jigdo Template Extraction parameter list or add a parameter to that list.
|
|
The alias names are the corresponding genisoimage options. They are accepted
|
|
as parameter names as well. Especially they are recognized by the \-as mkisofs
|
|
emulation command.
|
|
.br
|
|
Parameter \fBclear\fR with any value empties the whole list.
|
|
No .jigdo and .template file will be produced.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBtemplate_path\fR sets the disk_path for the .template file with the
|
|
holed and compressed ISO image copy.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-template
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBjigdo_path\fR sets the disk_path for the .jigdo file with the checksums
|
|
and download addresses for filling the holes in .template.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-jigdo
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmd5_path\fR sets the disk_path where to find the .md5 input file.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-md5\-list
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmin_size\fR sets the minimum size for a data file to be listed
|
|
in the .jigdo file and being a hole in the .template file.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-min\-file\-size
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBexclude\fR adds a regular expression pattern which will get compared
|
|
with the absolute disk_path of any data file. A match causes the file to
|
|
stay in .template in any case.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-exclude
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBdemand_md5\fR adds a regular expression pattern which will get compared
|
|
with the absolute disk_path of any data file that was not found in the .md5
|
|
list. A match causes a MISHAP event.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-force\-md5
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmapping\fR adds a string pair of the form To=From to the parameter list.
|
|
If a data file gets listed in the .jigdo file, then it is referred by the
|
|
file address from its line in the .md5 file. This file address gets checked
|
|
whether it begins with the From string. If so, then this string will be
|
|
replaced by the To string and a ':' character, before it goes into the .jigdo
|
|
file. The From string should end by a '/' character.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-map
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBcompression\fR chooses one of "bzip2" or "gzip" for the compression of
|
|
the template file. The jigdo file is put out uncompressed.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-jigdo\-template\-compress
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchecksum_iso\fR chooses one or more of "md5", "sha1", "sha256", "sha512"
|
|
for the auxiliary "# Image Hex" checksums in the jigdo file. The value may e.g.
|
|
look like "md5,sha1,sha512". Value "all" chooses all available algorithms.
|
|
Note that MD5 stays always enabled.
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-checksum_algorithm_iso
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchecksum_template\fR is like checksum_iso but for "# Template Hex".
|
|
.br
|
|
Alias: \-checksum_algorithm_template
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Character sets:
|
|
.PP
|
|
File names are strings of non\-zero bytes with 8 bit each. Unfortunately
|
|
the same byte string may appear as different peculiar national characters
|
|
on differently nationalized terminals.
|
|
The meanings of byte codes are defined in \fBcharacter sets\fR which have
|
|
names. Shell command iconv \-l lists them.
|
|
.br
|
|
Character sets should not matter as long as only english alphanumeric
|
|
characters are used for file names or as long as all writers and readers
|
|
of the media use the same character set.
|
|
Outside these constraints it may be necessary to let \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
convert byte codes.
|
|
.br
|
|
There is an input conversion from input character set to the local character
|
|
set which applies when an ISO image gets loaded. A conversion from local
|
|
character set to the output character set is performed when an
|
|
image tree gets written. The sets can be defined independently by commands
|
|
\-in_charset and \-out_charset. Normally one will have both identical, if ever.
|
|
.br
|
|
If conversions are desired then \fBxorriso\fR needs to know the name of the
|
|
local character set. \fBxorriso\fR can inquire the same info as
|
|
shell command
|
|
"locale" with argument "charmap". This may be influenced by environment
|
|
variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG and should match the expectations of
|
|
the terminal.
|
|
.br
|
|
The default output charset is the local character set of the terminal where
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR runs. So by default no conversion happens between local
|
|
filesystem
|
|
names and emerging names in the image. The situation stays ambigous and the
|
|
reader has to riddle what character set was used.
|
|
.br
|
|
By command \-auto_charset it is possible to attribute the output charset name
|
|
to the image. This makes the situation unambigous. But if your terminal
|
|
character set does not match the character set of the local file names,
|
|
then this attribute can become plainly wrong and cause problems at read time.
|
|
To prevent this it is necessary to check whether the terminal properly
|
|
displays all intended filenames. Check especially the exotic national
|
|
characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
To enforce recording of a particular character set name without any conversion
|
|
at image generation time, set \-charset and \-local_charset to the desired name,
|
|
and enable \-backslash_codes to avoid evil character display on your terminal.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-charset\fR character_set_name
|
|
Set the character set from which to convert file names when loading an
|
|
image and to which to convert when writing an image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-local_charset\fR character_set_name
|
|
Override the system assumption of the local character set name.
|
|
If this appears necessary, one should consider to set \-backslash_codes to
|
|
"on" in order to avoid dangerous binary codes being sent to the terminal.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Exception processing:
|
|
.PP
|
|
Since the tasks of \fBxorriso\fR are manifold and prone to external
|
|
influence, there
|
|
may arise the need for \fBxorriso\fR to report and handle problem events.
|
|
.br
|
|
Those events get classified when they are detected by one of the software
|
|
modules and forwarded to reporting and evaluation modules which decide about
|
|
reactions. Event classes are sorted by severity:
|
|
.br
|
|
"NEVER" The upper end of the severity spectrum.
|
|
.br
|
|
"ABORT" The program is being aborted and on its way to end.
|
|
.br
|
|
"FATAL" The main purpose of the run failed
|
|
or an important resource failed unexpectedly.
|
|
.br
|
|
"FAILURE" An important part of the job could not be performed.
|
|
.br
|
|
"MISHAP" A FAILURE which can be tolerated during ISO image generation.
|
|
.br
|
|
"SORRY" A less important part of the job could not be performed.
|
|
.br
|
|
"WARNING" A situation is suspicious of being not intended by the user.
|
|
.br
|
|
"HINT" A proposal to the user how to achieve better results.
|
|
.br
|
|
"NOTE" A harmless information about noteworthy circumstances.
|
|
.br
|
|
"UPDATE" A pacifier message during long running operations.
|
|
.br
|
|
"DEBUG" A message which would only interest the program developers.
|
|
.br
|
|
"ALL" The lower end of the severity spectrum.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-abort_on\fR severity
|
|
Set the severity threshold for events to abort the program.
|
|
.br
|
|
Useful: "NEVER", "ABORT", "FATAL", "FAILURE" , "MISHAP", "SORRY"
|
|
.br
|
|
It may become necessary to abort the program anyway, despite
|
|
the setting by this command. Expect not many "ABORT" events to
|
|
be ignorable.
|
|
.br
|
|
A special property of this command is that it works preemptive if given as
|
|
program start argument. I.e. the first \-abort_on setting among the
|
|
start arguments is in effect already when the first operations of
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR begin. Only "\-abort_on" with dash "\-" is recognized that way.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-return_with\fR severity exit_value
|
|
Set the threshold and exit_value to be returned at program end if no abort
|
|
has happened. This is to allow \fBxorriso\fR to go on after problems
|
|
but to get a failure indicating exit value from the program, nevertheless.
|
|
Useful is a value lower than the \-abort_on threshold, down to "WARNING".
|
|
.br
|
|
exit_value may be either 0 (indicating success to the starter of the program)
|
|
or a number between 32 and 63. Some other exit_values are used by
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR if it decides to abort the program run:
|
|
.br
|
|
1=abort due to external signal
|
|
.br
|
|
2=no program arguments given
|
|
.br
|
|
3=creation of \fBxorriso\fR main object failed
|
|
.br
|
|
4=failure to start libburnia\-project.org libraries
|
|
.br
|
|
5=program abort during argument processing
|
|
.br
|
|
6=program abort during dialog processing
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-report_about\fR severity
|
|
Set the threshold for events to be reported.
|
|
.br
|
|
Useful: "SORRY", "WARNING", "HINT", "NOTE", "UPDATE", "DEBUG", "ALL"
|
|
.br
|
|
Regardless what is set by \-report_about, messages get always reported if they
|
|
reach the severity threshold of \-abort_on .
|
|
.br
|
|
Event messages are sent to the info channel "I" which is usually stderr
|
|
but may be influenced by command \-pkt_output.
|
|
Info messages which belong to no event get attributed severity "NOTE".
|
|
.br
|
|
A special property of this command is that the first \-report_about setting
|
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among the start arguments is in effect already when the first operations
|
|
of \fBxorriso\fR begin. Only "\-report_about" with dash "\-" is
|
|
recognized that way.
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.TP
|
|
\fB\-signal_handling\fR mode
|
|
Control the installation of a signal handler which shall react on external
|
|
signals (e.g. from program "kill" or from keys Ctrl+C) or on signals
|
|
caused by severe program errors.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "on" is the default. It uses the signal handler of libburn which produces
|
|
ugly messages but puts much effort in releasing optical drives
|
|
before \fBxorriso\fR ends.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "off" as first \-signal_handling among the start arguments prevents all
|
|
own signal precautions of \fBxorriso\fR. Inherited signal
|
|
handler settings stay as they are.
|
|
.br
|
|
It works like "sig_dfl" if given after other signal handling was already
|
|
established at program start.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "sig_dfl" uses the system provided default handling of signals, which is
|
|
normally a sudden abort of the program. To prevent stuck drives, the
|
|
libburn handler is used during burning, blanking, and formatting on MMC drives.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "sig_ign" tries to ignore as many signal types as possible. This imposes
|
|
the risk that \fBxorriso\fR refuses to end until externally kill \-9
|
|
if performed.
|
|
kill \-9 then imposes the risk that the drive is left in unusable state and
|
|
needs poweroff to be reset. So during burning, blanking, and formatting
|
|
wait for at least their normal run time before killing externally.
|
|
.br
|
|
A special property of this command is that the first \-signal_handling setting
|
|
among the start arguments is in effect already when the first operations
|
|
of \fBxorriso\fR begin. Only "\-signal_handling" with dash "\-" is
|
|
recognized that way.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-error_behavior\fR occasion behavior
|
|
Control the program behavior at problem event occasions.
|
|
For now this applies to occasions "image_loading" which is given while
|
|
an image tree is read from the input device, and to "file_extraction" which
|
|
is given with osirrox commands like \-extract.
|
|
.br
|
|
With "image_loading" there are three behaviors available:
|
|
.br
|
|
"best_effort" goes on with reading after events with severity below FAILURE
|
|
if the threshold of command \-abort_on allows this.
|
|
.br
|
|
"failure" aborts image tree reading on first event of at least SORRY.
|
|
It issues an own FAILURE event.
|
|
This is the default.
|
|
.br
|
|
"fatal" acts like "failure" but issues the own event as FATAL.
|
|
.br
|
|
With occasion "file_extraction" there are three behaviors:
|
|
.br
|
|
"keep" maintains incompletely extracted files on disk. This is the default.
|
|
.br
|
|
"delete" removes files which encountered errors during content extraction.
|
|
.br
|
|
"best_effort" starts a revovery attempt by means of \-extract_cut if the
|
|
file content stems from the loaded ISO image and is not filtered.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Dialog mode control:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dialog\fR "on"|"off"|"single_line"
|
|
Enable or disable to enter dialog mode after all program arguments are
|
|
processed.
|
|
In dialog mode input lines get prompted via readline or from stdin.
|
|
.br
|
|
If no \-abort_on severity was set when dialog starts, then "NEVER" is set
|
|
to avoid abort in most cases of wrong input or other problems. Before dialog
|
|
begins, the default is "FAILURE" which e.g. aborts on unknown commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "on" supports input of newline characters within quotation marks and
|
|
line continuation by trailing backslash outside quotation marks.
|
|
Mode "single_line" does not.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-page\fR length width
|
|
Describe terminal to the text pager. See also above, paragraph Result pager.
|
|
.br
|
|
If parameter length is nonzero then the user gets prompted after that
|
|
number of terminal lines. Zero length disables paging.
|
|
.br
|
|
Parameter width is the number of characters per terminal line. It is used
|
|
to compute the number of terminal lines which get occupied by an output line.
|
|
A usual terminal width is 80.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-use_readline\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
If "on" then use readline for dialog. Else use plain stdin.
|
|
.br
|
|
See also above, paragraph Dialog, Readline, Result pager.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-reassure\fR "on"|"tree"|"off"
|
|
If "on" then ask the user for "y" or "n":
|
|
.br
|
|
before deleting or overwriting any file in the ISO image,
|
|
.br
|
|
before overwriting any disk file during restore operations,
|
|
.br
|
|
before rolling back pending image changes,
|
|
.br
|
|
before committing image changes to media,
|
|
.br
|
|
before changing the input drive,
|
|
.br
|
|
before blanking or formatting media,
|
|
.br
|
|
before ending the program.
|
|
.br
|
|
With setting "tree" the reassuring prompt will appear for an eventual
|
|
directory only once and not for each file in its whole subtree.
|
|
.br
|
|
Setting "off" silently kills any kind of image file object resp. performs
|
|
above irrevocable actions.
|
|
.br
|
|
To really produce user prompts, command \-dialog needs to be set to "on".
|
|
Note that the prompt does not appear in situations where file removal
|
|
is forbidden by command \-overwrite. \-reassure only imposes an additional
|
|
curb for removing existing file objects.
|
|
.br
|
|
Be aware that file objects get deleted from the ISO image immediately
|
|
after confirmation. They are gone even if the running command gets aborted
|
|
and its desired effect gets revoked. In case of severe mess\-up, consider to
|
|
use \-rollback to revoke the whole session.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Drive and media related inquiry actions:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-devices\fR
|
|
Show list of available MMC drives with the addresses of
|
|
their libburn standard device files.
|
|
.br
|
|
This is only possible when no ISO image changes are pending.
|
|
After this command was executed, there is no drive current
|
|
and no image loaded.
|
|
.br
|
|
In order to be visible, a device has to offer rw\-permissions
|
|
with its libburn standard device file. Thus it might be only the
|
|
\fBsuperuser\fR
|
|
who is able to see all drives.
|
|
.br
|
|
Drives which are occupied by other processes get not shown.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-device_links\fR
|
|
Like \-devices, but presenting the drives with addresses of symbolic links
|
|
which point to the actual device files.
|
|
.br
|
|
Modern GNU/Linux systems may shuffle drive addresses from boot to boot.
|
|
The udev daemon is supposed to create links which always point to the
|
|
same drive, regardless of its system address.
|
|
The command \-device_links shows the addresses of such links if they begin
|
|
by "/dev/dvd" or "/dev/cd".
|
|
Precedence is: "dvdrw", "cdrw", "dvd", "cdrom", "cd".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-toc\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
Show media specific table of content. This is the session history
|
|
of the medium, not the ISO image directory tree.
|
|
.br
|
|
In case of overwriteable media holding a valid ISO image, it may happen that
|
|
only a single session gets shown. But if the first session on the
|
|
overwriteable media was written by \fBxorriso\fR then a complete
|
|
session history can be emulated.
|
|
.br
|
|
A drive which is incapable of writing may show any media as CD\-ROM or DVD\-ROM
|
|
with only one or two sessions on it. The last of these sessions is supposed
|
|
to be the most recent real session then.
|
|
.br
|
|
Some read\-only drives and media show no usable session history at all.
|
|
Command \-rom_toc_scan might help.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mount_cmd\fR drive entity id path
|
|
Emit an appropriate command line for mounting the ISO session
|
|
indicated by drive, entity and id.
|
|
The result will be different on GNU/Linux and on FreeBSD.
|
|
.br
|
|
drive can be "indev" or "outdev" to indicate already acquired drives,
|
|
or it can be the path of a not yet acquired drive.
|
|
Prefix "stdio:" for non\-MMC drives is not mandatory.
|
|
.br
|
|
entity must be either "sbsector" with the superblock sector address as id,
|
|
or "track" with a track number as id, or "session" with a session number,
|
|
or "volid" with a search pattern for the volume id, or "auto" with any text
|
|
as id.
|
|
.br
|
|
path will be used as mount point and must already exist as a directory on disk.
|
|
.br
|
|
The command gets printed to the result channel. See command \-mount
|
|
for direct execution of this command.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mount_opts\fR option[:option...]
|
|
Set options which influence \-mount and \-mount_cmd. Currently there is only
|
|
option "exclusive" which is default and its counterpart "shared". The latter
|
|
causes \fBxorriso\fR not to give up the affected drive with command \-mount.
|
|
On GNU/Linux it adds mount option "loop" which may allow to mount several
|
|
sessions of the same block device at the same time. One should not write
|
|
to a mounted optical medium, of course. Take care to umount all sessions
|
|
before ejecting.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-session_string\fR drive entity id format
|
|
Print to the result channel a text which gets composed according to
|
|
format and the parameters of the addressed session.
|
|
.br
|
|
Formats "linux:"path or "freebsd:"path produce the output of \-mount_cmd
|
|
for the given operating systems.
|
|
.br
|
|
In other texts \fBxorriso\fR will substitute the following parameter names.
|
|
An optional prefix "string:" will be removed.
|
|
.br
|
|
"%device%" will be substituted by the mountable device path of the drive
|
|
address.
|
|
.br
|
|
"%sbsector%" will be substituted by the session start sector.
|
|
.br
|
|
"%track%", "%session%", "%volid%" will be substituted by track number,
|
|
session number, resp. volume id of the depicted session.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-print_size\fR
|
|
Print the foreseeable consumption of 2048 byte blocks
|
|
by next \-commit. This can last a while as a \-commit gets
|
|
prepared and only in last moment is revoked by this command.
|
|
The result depends on several settings and also on the kind of output device.
|
|
If no \-jidgo options are set and not command \-as "mkisofs" was used,
|
|
then \-padding (300 kB by default) is not counted as part of the image size.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-tell_media_space\fR
|
|
Print available space on the output medium and the free space after
|
|
subtracting already foreseeable consumption by next \-commit.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pvd_info\fR
|
|
Print various id strings which can be found in loaded ISO images. Some of
|
|
them may be changed by commands like \-volid or \-publisher. For these
|
|
ids \-pvd_info reports what would be written with the next \-commit.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Navigation in ISO image and disk filesystem:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cd\fR iso_rr_path
|
|
Change the current working directory in the ISO image.
|
|
This is prepended to iso_rr_paths which do not begin with '/'.
|
|
.br
|
|
It is possible to set the working directory to a path which does not exist
|
|
yet in the ISO image. The necessary parent directories will be created when
|
|
the first file object is inserted into that virtual directory.
|
|
Use \-mkdir if you want to enforce the existence of the directory already at
|
|
first insertion.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cdx\fR disk_path
|
|
Change the current working directory in the local filesystem.
|
|
To be prepended to disk_paths which do not begin with '/'.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pwd\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
Tell the current working directory in the ISO image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pwdx\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
Tell the current working directory in the local filesystem.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-ls\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
List files in the ISO image which match shell patterns
|
|
(i.e. with wildcards '*' '?' '[a\-z]').
|
|
If a pattern does not begin with '/' then it is compared with addresses
|
|
relative to \-cd.
|
|
.br
|
|
Directories are listed by their content rather than as single file item.
|
|
.br
|
|
Pattern expansion may be disabled by command \-iso_rr_pattern.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsd\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-ls but listing directories as themselves and not by their content.
|
|
This resembles shell command ls \-d.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsl\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-ls but also list some of the file attributes.
|
|
The output format resembles shell command ls \-ln.
|
|
.br
|
|
File type 'e' indicates the El Torito boot catalog.
|
|
.br
|
|
If the file has non\-trivial ACL, then a '+' is appended to the permission info.
|
|
If the file is hidden, then 'I' for "iso_rr", 'J' for "joliet", resp. 'H' for
|
|
"on" gets appended. Together with ACL it is 'i', 'j', resp. 'h'.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsdl\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-lsd but also list some of the file attributes.
|
|
The output format resembles shell command ls \-dln.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsx\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
List files in the local filesystem which match shell patterns. Patterns which
|
|
do not begin with '/' are used relative to \-cdx.
|
|
.br
|
|
Directories are listed by their content rather than as single file item.
|
|
.br
|
|
Pattern expansion may be disabled by command \-disk_pattern.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsdx\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-lsx but listing directories as themselves and not by their content.
|
|
This resembles shell command ls \-d.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lslx\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-lsx but also listing some of the file attributes.
|
|
Output format resembles shell command ls \-ln.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-lsdlx\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-lsdx but also listing some of the file attributes.
|
|
Output format resembles shell command ls \-dln.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-getfacl\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Print the access permissions of the given files in the ISO image using the
|
|
format of shell command getfacl. If a file has no ACL then it gets fabricated
|
|
from the \-chmod settings. A file may have a real ACL if it was introduced into
|
|
the ISO image while command \-acl was set to "on".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-getfacl_r\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-gefacl but listing recursively the whole file trees underneath eventual
|
|
directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-getfattr\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Print the xattr of the given files in the ISO image.
|
|
If a file has no such xattr then noting is printed for it.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-getfattr_r\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Like \-gefattr but listing recursively the whole file trees underneath eventual
|
|
directories.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-du\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
Recursively list size of directories and files in the ISO image
|
|
which match one of the patterns.
|
|
similar to shell command du \-k.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dus\fR iso_rr_pattern [***]
|
|
List size of directories and files in the ISO image
|
|
which match one of the patterns.
|
|
Similar to shell command du \-sk.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dux\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
Recursively list size of directories and files in the local filesystem
|
|
which match one of the patterns. Similar to shell command du \-k.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-dusx\fR disk_pattern [***]
|
|
List size of directories and files in the local filesystem
|
|
which match one of the patterns.
|
|
Similar to shell command du \-sk.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-findx\fR disk_path [-name pattern] [-type t] [-exec action [params]] --
|
|
Like \-find but operating on local filesystem and not on the ISO image.
|
|
This is subject to the settings of \-follow.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-findx accepts the same \-type parameters as \-find. Additionally it recognizes
|
|
type "mountpoint" (or "m") which matches subdirectories which reside on a
|
|
different device than their parent. It never matches the disk_path
|
|
given as start address for \-findx.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-findx accepts the \-exec actions as does \-find. But except the following few
|
|
actions it will always perform action "echo".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBin_iso\fR
|
|
reports the path if its counterpart exists in the ISO image.
|
|
For this the disk_path of the \-findx command gets replaced
|
|
by the iso_rr_path given as parameter.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-findx /home/thomas \-exec in_iso /thomas_on_cd \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBnot_in_iso\fR
|
|
reports the path if its counterpart does
|
|
not exist in the ISO image. The report format is the same as with command
|
|
\-compare.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBadd_missing\fR iso_rr_path_start
|
|
adds the counterpart if it does not yet
|
|
exist in the ISO image and marks it for "rm_merge" as non\-removable.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g.: \-findx /home/thomas \-exec add_missing /thomas_on_cd \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBis_full_in_iso\fR
|
|
reports if the counterpart in the ISO image
|
|
contains files. To be used with \-type "m" to report mount points.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBempty_iso_dir\fR
|
|
deletes all files from the counterpart
|
|
in the ISO image. To be used with \-type "m" to truncate mount points.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBestimate_size\fR
|
|
prints a lower and an upper estimation of the number of blocks which the
|
|
found files together will occupy in the emerging ISO image.
|
|
This does not account for the superblock,
|
|
for the directories in the \-findx path, or for image padding.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBlist_extattr\fR mode
|
|
prints a script to the result channel, which would use FreeBSD command
|
|
setextattr to set the file's xattr name\-value pairs of user namespace.
|
|
See \-find for a description of parameter mode.
|
|
.br
|
|
E.g. \-exec list_extattr e \-\-
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-compare\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Compare attributes and eventual data file content of a fileobject in the
|
|
local filesystem with a file object in the ISO image. The iso_rr_path may
|
|
well point to an image file object which is not yet committed, i.e. of which
|
|
the data content still resides in the local filesystem. Such data content is
|
|
prone to externally caused changes.
|
|
.br
|
|
If iso_rr_path is empty then disk_path is used as path in the ISO image too.
|
|
.br
|
|
Differing attributes are reported in detail, differing content is summarized.
|
|
Both to the result channel. In case of no differences no result lines are
|
|
emitted.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-compare_r\fR disk_path iso_rr_path
|
|
Like \-compare but working recursively. I.e. all file objects below both
|
|
addresses get compared whether they have counterparts below the other address
|
|
and whether both counterparts match.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-compare_l\fR disk_prefix iso_rr_prefix disk_path [***]
|
|
Perform \-compare_r with each of the disk_path parameters. iso_rr_path will be
|
|
composed from disk_path by replacing disk_prefix by iso_rr_prefix.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-show_stream\fR iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Display the content stream chain of data files in the ISO image. The chain
|
|
consists of the iso_rr_name and one or more streams, separated by " < " marks.
|
|
A stream description consists of one or more texts, separated by ":"
|
|
characters.
|
|
The first text tells the stream type, the following ones, if ever, describe its
|
|
individual properties.
|
|
Frequently used types are:
|
|
.br
|
|
disk:'disk_path' for local filesystem objects.
|
|
.br
|
|
image:'iso_rr_path' for ISO image file objects.
|
|
.br
|
|
cout:'disk_path offset count' for \-cut_out files.
|
|
.br
|
|
extf:'filter_name' for external filters.
|
|
.br
|
|
Example:
|
|
.br
|
|
'/abc/xyz.gz' < extf:'gzip' < disk:'/home/me/x'
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-show_stream_r\fR iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-show_stream but working recursively.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Evaluation of readability and recovery:
|
|
.PP
|
|
It is not uncommon that optical media produce read errors. The reasons may be
|
|
various and get obscured by error correction which is performed by the drives
|
|
and based on extra data on the media. If a drive returns data then one can
|
|
quite trust that they are valid. But at some degree of read problems the
|
|
correction will fail and the drive is supposed to indicate error.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR can scan a medium for readable data blocks, classify them
|
|
according
|
|
to their read speed, save them to a file, and keep track of successfuly saved
|
|
blocks for further tries on the same medium.
|
|
.br
|
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By command \-md5 checksums may get recorded with data files and whole
|
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sessions. These checksums are reachable only via indev and a loaded image.
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They work independently of the media type and can detect transmission errors.
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.TP
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\fB\-check_media\fR [option [option ...]] --
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Try to read data blocks from the indev drive, optionally copy them to a
|
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disk file, and finally report about the encountered quality. Several options
|
|
may be used to modify the default behavior.
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.br
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The parameters given with this command override the default settings which
|
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may have been changed by command \-check_media_defaults. See there for a
|
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description of available options.
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.br
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The result list tells intervals of 2 KiB blocks with start address, number
|
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of blocks and quality. Qualities which begin with "+" are
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supposed to be valid readable data. Qualities with "\-" are unreadable or
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corrupted data.
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"0" indicates qualities which are not covered by the check run or are regularly
|
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allowed to be unreadable (e.g. gaps between tracks).
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.br
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Alternatively it is possible to report damaged files rather than blocks.
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.br
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If \-md5 is "on" then the default mode what=tracks looks out for libisofs
|
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checksum tags for the ISO session data and checks them
|
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against the checksums computed from the data stream.
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.TP
|
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\fB\-check_media_defaults\fR [option [option ...]] --
|
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Preset options for runs of \-check_media, \-extract_cut and best_effort
|
|
file extraction. Options given with \-check_media will override the
|
|
preset options. \-extract_cut will override some options automatically.
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.br
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An option consists of a keyword, a "=" character, and a value. Options
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|
may override each other. So their sequence matters.
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.br
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The default setting at program start is:
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.br
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use=indev what=tracks min_lba=\-1 max_lba=\-1 retry=default
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.br
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time_limit=28800 item_limit=100000 data_to='' event=ALL
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.br
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abort_file=/var/opt/xorriso/do_abort_check_media
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.br
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sector_map='' map_with_volid=off patch_lba0=off report=blocks
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.br
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bad_limit=valid slow_limit=1.0 chunk_size=0s async_chunks=0
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.br
|
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Option "reset=now" restores these startup defaults.
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.br
|
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Non\-default options are:
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.br
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\fBreport="files"\fR
|
|
lists the files which use damaged blocks (not with use=outdev).
|
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The format is like with find \-exec report_damage.
|
|
Note that a MD5 session mismatch marks all files of the session as damaged.
|
|
If finer distinction is desired, perform \-md5 off before \-check_media.
|
|
.br
|
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\fBreport="blocks_files"\fR
|
|
first lists damaged blocks and then affected files.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBuse="outdev"\fR
|
|
reads from the output drive instead of the input drive. This
|
|
avoids loading the ISO image tree from media.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBuse="sector_map"\fR
|
|
does not read any media but loads the file given by option
|
|
sector_map= and processes this virtual outcome.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBwhat="disc"\fR
|
|
scans the payload range of a medium without respecting track gaps.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBwhat="image"\fR
|
|
similar to "disc", but restricts scanning to the range of the ISO 9660 image,
|
|
if present.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmin_lba=limit\fR
|
|
omits all blocks with addresses lower than limit.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmax_lba=limit\fR
|
|
switches to what=disc and omits all blocks above limit.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBretry="on"\fR
|
|
forces read retries with single blocks when the normal read
|
|
chunk produces a read error. By default, retries are only enabled with CD
|
|
media. "retry=off" forbits retries for all media types.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBabort_file=disk_path\fR
|
|
gives the path of the file which may abort a scan run. Abort
|
|
happens if the file exists and its mtime is not older than the start time
|
|
of the run. Use shell command "touch" to trigger this.
|
|
Other than an aborted program run, this will report the tested and untested
|
|
blocks and go on with running \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBtime_limit=seconds\fR
|
|
gives the number of seconds after which the scan shall be
|
|
aborted. This is useful for unattended scanning of media which may else
|
|
overwork the drive in its effort to squeeze out some readable blocks.
|
|
Abort may be delayed by the drive gnawing on the last single read operation.
|
|
Value \-1 means unlimited time.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBitem_limit=number\fR
|
|
gives the number of report list items after which to abort.
|
|
Value \-1 means unlimited item number.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBdata_to=disk_path\fR
|
|
copies the valid blocks to the given file.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBevent=severity\fR
|
|
sets the given severity for a problem event which shall be issued at
|
|
the end of a check run if data blocks were unreadable or failed to match
|
|
recorded MD5 checksums. Severity "ALL" disables this event.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBsector_map=disk_path\fR
|
|
tries to read the file given by disk_path as
|
|
sector bitmap and to store such a map file after the scan run.
|
|
The bitmap tells which blocks have been read successfully in previous runs.
|
|
It allows to do several scans on the same medium, even with intermediate
|
|
eject, in order to collect readable blocks whenever the drive is lucky enough
|
|
to produce them. The stored file contains a human readable TOC of tracks
|
|
and their start block addresses, followed by binary bitmap data.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBmap_with_volid="on"\fR
|
|
examines tracks whether they are ISO images and
|
|
prints their volume ids into the human readable TOC of sector_map=.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBpatch_lba0="on"\fR
|
|
transfers within the data_to= file a copy of the currently
|
|
loaded session head to the start of that file and patches it to be valid
|
|
at that position.
|
|
This makes the loaded session the default session of the image file
|
|
when it gets mounted or loaded as stdio: drive. But it usually makes
|
|
the original session 1 inaccessible.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBpatch_lba0="force"\fR
|
|
performs patch_lba0="on" even if \fBxorriso\fR believes
|
|
that the copied data are not valid.
|
|
.br
|
|
patch_lba0= may also bear a number. If it is 32 or higher it is taken as
|
|
start address of the session to be copied. In this case it is not necessary to
|
|
have an \-indev and a loaded image. ":force" may be appended after the number.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBbad_limit=threshold\fR
|
|
sets the highest quality which shall be considered as damage.
|
|
Choose one of "good", "md5_match", "slow", "partial", "valid", "untested",
|
|
"invalid", "tao_end", "off_track", "md5_mismatch", "unreadable".
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBslow_limit=threshold\fR
|
|
sets the time threshold for a single read chunk to be considered
|
|
slow. This may be a fractional number like 0.1 or 1.5.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBchunk_size=size\fR
|
|
sets the number of bytes to be read in one read operation.
|
|
This gets rounded down to full blocks of 2048 bytes. 0 means automatic size.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBasync_chunks=number\fR
|
|
enables asynchronous MD5 processing if number is 2 or larger.
|
|
In this case the given number of read chunks is allocated as fifo buffer.
|
|
On very fast MMC drives try: chunk_size=64s async_chunks=16.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-check_md5\fR severity iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Compare the data content of the given files in the loaded image with their
|
|
recorded MD5 checksums, if there are any. In case of any mismatch an event of
|
|
the given severity is issued. It may then be handled by appropriate settings of
|
|
commands \-abort_on or \-return_with which both can cause non\-zero exit values
|
|
of the program run. Severity ALL suppresses that event.
|
|
.br
|
|
This command reports match and mismatch of data files to the result channel.
|
|
Non\-data files cause NOTE events. There will also be UPDATE events from
|
|
data reading.
|
|
.br
|
|
If no iso_rr_path is given then the whole loaded session is compared with its
|
|
MD5 sum. Be aware that this covers only one session and not the whole image
|
|
if there are older sessions.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-check_md5_r\fR severity iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Like \-check_md5 but checking all data files underneath the given paths.
|
|
Only mismatching data files will be reported.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B osirrox ISO-to-disk restore commands:
|
|
.PP
|
|
Normally \fBxorriso\fR only writes to disk files which were given as stdio:
|
|
pseudo\-drives or as log files.
|
|
But its alter ego osirrox is able to extract file objects
|
|
from ISO images and to create, overwrite, or delete file objects on disk.
|
|
.br
|
|
Disk file exclusions by \-not_mgt, \-not_leaf, \-not_paths apply.
|
|
If disk file objects already exist then the settings of \-overwrite and
|
|
\-reassure apply. But \-overwrite "on" only triggers the behavior
|
|
of \-overwrite "nondir". I.e. directories cannot be deleted.
|
|
.br
|
|
Access permissions of files in the ISO image do not restrict restoring.
|
|
The directory permissions on disk have to allow rwx.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-osirrox\fR "on"|"device_files"|"off"|"banned"|[:option:...]
|
|
Setting "off" disables disk filesystem manipulations. This is the default
|
|
unless the program was started with leafname "osirrox". Elsewise
|
|
the capability to restore files can be enabled explicitly by \-osirrox "on".
|
|
It can be irrevocably disabled by \-osirrox "banned".
|
|
.br
|
|
To enable restoring of special files by "device_files" is potentially
|
|
dangerous.
|
|
The meaning of the number st_rdev (see man 2 stat) depends much on the
|
|
operating system. Best is to restore device files only to the same system
|
|
from where they were copied. If not enabled, device files in the ISO image
|
|
are ignored during restore operations.
|
|
.br
|
|
Due to a bug of previous versions, device files from previous sessions might
|
|
have been altered to major=0, minor=1. So this combination does not get
|
|
restored.
|
|
.br
|
|
Option "concat_split_on" is default. It enables restoring of split file
|
|
directories as data files if the directory contains a complete collection
|
|
of \-cut_out part files. With option "concat_split_off" such directories are
|
|
handled like any other ISO image directory.
|
|
.br
|
|
Option "auto_chmod_off" is default. If "auto_chmod_on" is set then access
|
|
restrictions for disk directories get circumvented if those directories
|
|
are owned by the effective user who runs \fBxorriso\fR. This happens
|
|
by temporarily granting rwx permission to the owner.
|
|
.br
|
|
Option "sort_lba_on" may improve read performance with optical drives. It
|
|
allows to restore large numbers of hard links without exhausting
|
|
\-temp_mem_limit. It does not preserve directory mtime and it needs
|
|
\-osirrox option auto_chmod_on in order to extract directories which offer no
|
|
write permission. Default is "sort_lba_off".
|
|
.br
|
|
Option "o_excl_on" is the default unless the program was started with leafname
|
|
"osirrox". On GNU/Linux it tries to avoid using drives which are mounted or in
|
|
use by other libburn programs.
|
|
Option "o_excl_off" allows on GNU/Linux to access such drives. Drives which
|
|
get acquired while "o_excl_off" will refuse to get blanked, formatted,
|
|
written, or ejected. But be aware that even harmless inquiries can spoil
|
|
ongoing burns of CD\-R[W] and DVD\-R[W].
|
|
.br
|
|
Option "strict_acl_off" is default. It tolerates on FreeBSD the presence of
|
|
directory "default" ACLs in the ISO image. With "strict_acl_on" these
|
|
GNU/Linux ACLs cause on FreeBSD a FAILURE event during restore with \-acl "on".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-extract\fR iso_rr_path disk_path
|
|
Copy the file objects at and underneath iso_rr_path to their corresponding
|
|
addresses at and underneath disk_path.
|
|
This is the inverse of \-map or \-update_r.
|
|
.br
|
|
If iso_rr_path is a directory and disk_path is an existing directory then
|
|
both trees will be merged. Directory attributes get extracted only if the disk
|
|
directory is newly created by the copy operation.
|
|
Disk files get removed only if they are to be replaced
|
|
by file objects from the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
As many attributes as possible are copied together with restored
|
|
file objects.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-extract_single\fR iso_rr_path disk_path
|
|
Like \-extract, but if iso_rr_path is a directory then its sub tree gets not
|
|
restored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-extract_l\fR iso_rr_prefix disk_prefix iso_rr_path [***]
|
|
Perform \-extract with each of the iso_rr_path parameters. disk_path will be
|
|
composed from iso_rr_path by replacing iso_rr_prefix by disk_prefix.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-extract_cut\fR iso_rr_path byte_offset byte_count disk_path
|
|
Copy a byte interval from a data file out of an ISO image into a newly created
|
|
disk file.
|
|
The main purpose for this is to allow handling of large files if they
|
|
are not supported by mount \-t iso9660 and if the reading system is unable
|
|
to buffer them as a whole.
|
|
.br
|
|
If the data bytes of iso_rr_path are stored in the loaded ISO image,
|
|
and no filter is applied,
|
|
and byte_offset is a multiple of 2048, then a special run of \-check_media
|
|
is performed. It may be quicker and more rugged than the general reading
|
|
method.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cpx\fR iso_rr_path [***] disk_path
|
|
Copy single leaf file objects from the ISO image to the address given by
|
|
disk_path. If more then one iso_rr_path is given then
|
|
disk_path must be a directory or non\-existent. In the latter case it gets
|
|
created and the extracted files get installed in it with the same leafnames.
|
|
.br
|
|
Missing directory components in disk_path will get created, if possible.
|
|
.br
|
|
Directories are allowed as iso_rr_path only with \-osirrox "concat_split_on"
|
|
and only if they actually represent a complete collection of \-cut_out split
|
|
file parts.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cpax\fR iso_rr_path [***] disk_path
|
|
Like \-cpx but restoring mtime, atime as in ISO image and trying to set
|
|
ownership and group as in ISO image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cp_rx\fR iso_rr_path [***] disk_path
|
|
Like \-cpx but also extracting whole directory trees from the ISO image.
|
|
.br
|
|
The resulting disk paths are determined as with shell command cp \-r :
|
|
If disk_path is an existing directory then the trees will be inserted or merged
|
|
underneath this directory and will keep their leaf names. The ISO directory "/"
|
|
has no leaf name and thus gets mapped directly to disk_path.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-cp_rax\fR iso_rr_path [***] disk_path
|
|
Like \-cp_rx but restoring mtime, atime as in ISO image and trying to set
|
|
ownership and group as in ISO image.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-paste_in\fR iso_rr_path disk_path byte_offset byte_count
|
|
Read the content of a ISO data file and write it into a data file on disk
|
|
beginning at the byte_offset. Write at most byte_count bytes.
|
|
This is the inverse of command \-cut_out.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mount\fR drive entity id path
|
|
Produce the same line as \-mount_cmd and then execute it as external program run
|
|
after giving up the depicted drive. See also \-mount_opts.
|
|
This demands \-osirrox to be enabled and normally will succeed only for the
|
|
superuser. For safety reasons the mount program is only executed if it is
|
|
reachable as /bin/mount or /sbin/mount.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Command compatibility emulations:
|
|
.PP
|
|
Writing of ISO 9660 on CD is traditionally done by program mkisofs
|
|
as ISO 9660 image producer and cdrecord as burn program.
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR does not strive for their comprehensive emulation.
|
|
Nevertheless it is ready to perform some of its core tasks under control
|
|
of commands which in said programs trigger comparable actions.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-as\fR personality option [options] --
|
|
.br
|
|
Perform the variable length option list as sparse emulation of the program
|
|
depicted by the personality word.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Personality "\fBmkisofs\fR" accepts the options listed with:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-as mkisofs \-help \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
Among them: \-R (always on), \-r, \-J, \-o, \-M, \-C, \-dir\-mode, \-file\-mode,
|
|
\-path\-list, \-m, \-exclude\-list,
|
|
\-f, \-print\-size, \-pad, \-no\-pad, \-V, \-v, \-version, \-graft\-points, \-z,
|
|
\-no\-emul\-boot, \-b, \-c, \-boot\-info\-table, \-boot\-load\-size, \-input\-charset, \-G,
|
|
\-output\-charset, \-U, \-hide, \-hide\-joliet, \-hide\-list, \-hide\-joliet\-list,
|
|
file paths and pathspecs.
|
|
A lot of options are not supported and lead to failure of the mkisofs
|
|
emulation. Some are ignored, but better do not rely on this tolerance.
|
|
.br
|
|
The supported options are documented in detail in xorrisofs.info
|
|
and in man xorrisofs. The description here is focused on the effect
|
|
of mkisofs emulation in the context of a \fBxorriso\fR run.
|
|
.br
|
|
Other than with the "cdrecord" personality there is no automatic \-commit at
|
|
the end of a "mkisofs" option list. Verbosity settings \-v (= "UPDATE") and
|
|
\-quiet (= "SORRY") persist. The output file
|
|
persists until things happen like \-commit, \-rollback, \-dev, or end of
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
\-pacifier gets set to "mkisofs" if files are added to the image.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-graft\-points is equivalent to \-pathspecs on. Note that pathspecs without "="
|
|
are interpreted differently than with \fBxorriso\fR command \-add.
|
|
Directories get
|
|
merged with the root directory of the ISO image, other filetypes get mapped
|
|
into that root directory.
|
|
.br
|
|
If pathspecs are given and if no output file was chosen before or during the
|
|
"mkisofs" option list, then standard output (\-outdev "\-") will get into effect.
|
|
If \-o points to a regular file, then it will be truncated to 0 bytes
|
|
when finally writing begins. This truncation does not happen if the drive
|
|
is chosen by \fBxorriso\fR commands before \-as mkisofs or after its
|
|
list delimiter. Directories and symbolic links are no valid \-o targets.
|
|
.br
|
|
Writing to stdout is possible only if \-as "mkisofs" was among the start
|
|
arguments or if other start arguments pointed the output drive to
|
|
standard output.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-print\-size inhibits automatic image production at program end. This ban is
|
|
lifted only if the pending image changes get discarded.
|
|
.br
|
|
Padding is counted as part of the ISO image if not option \-\-emul\-toc
|
|
is given.
|
|
.br
|
|
If no \-iso\-level is given, then level 1 is chosen when the first file or
|
|
directory is added to the image. At the same occasion directory names get
|
|
allowed to violate the standard by \-compliance option allow_dir_id_ext.
|
|
This may be avoided by option \-disallow_dir_id_ext.
|
|
.br
|
|
Option \-root is supported. Option \-old\-root is implemented by \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
commands \-mkdir, \-cp_clone, \-find update_merge, and \-find rm_merge.
|
|
\-root and \-old\-root set command \-disk_dev_ino to "ino_only" and \-md5 to "on",
|
|
by default.
|
|
\-disk_dev_ino can be set to "off" by \-\-old\-root\-no\-ino
|
|
resp. to "on" by \-\-old\-root\-devno .
|
|
\-md5 can be set to "off" by \-\-old\-root\-no\-md5 .
|
|
.br
|
|
Not original mkisofs options are \-\-quoted_path_list ,
|
|
\-\-hardlinks , \-\-acl ,
|
|
\-\-xattr , \-\-md5 , \-\-stdio_sync .
|
|
They work like the \fBxorriso\fR commands with the
|
|
same name and hardcoded parameter "on", e.g. \-acl "on".
|
|
Explicit parameters are expected by \-\-stdio_sync
|
|
and \-\-scdbackup_tag.
|
|
.br
|
|
The capability to preserve multi\-session history on overwriteable media
|
|
gets disabled by default. It can be enabled by using \-\-emul\-toc
|
|
with the first session. See \-compliance no_emul_toc.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\-sort\-weight gets as parameters a number and an iso_rr_path.
|
|
The number becomes the LBA sorting weight of regular file iso_rr_path or
|
|
of all regular files underneath directory iso_rr_path.
|
|
(See \-find \-exec sort_weight).
|
|
.br
|
|
Adopted from grub\-mkisofs are \-\-protective\-msdos\-label
|
|
(see \-boot_image grub partition_table=on) and
|
|
\-\-modification\-date=YYYYMMDDhhmmsscc
|
|
(see \-volume_date uuid). For EFI bootable GRUB boot images use
|
|
\-\-efi\-boot.
|
|
It performs \-boot_image grub efi_path= surrounded by two
|
|
\-boot_image "any" "next".
|
|
Alternative option \-e from Fedora genisoimage sets bin_path and
|
|
platform_id for EFI, but performs no "next".
|
|
.br
|
|
For MBR bootable ISOLINUX images there is \-isohybrid\-mbr FILE, where
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FILE is one of the Syslinux files mbr/isohdp[fp]x*.bin . Use this
|
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instead of \-G to apply the effect of \-boot_image isolinux partition_table=on.
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|
.br
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\-\-boot\-catalog\-hide is \-boot_image any cat_hidden=on.
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|
.br
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\-mips\-boot is the same as \-boot_image any mips_path= .
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.br
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|
\-mipsel\-boot leads to mipsel_path= .
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.br
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|
\-partition_offset number is
|
|
\-boot_image any partition_offset=number.
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|
.br
|
|
Command \-append_partition is supported.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-untranslated_name_len number is
|
|
\-compliance untranslated_name_len=number.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\-old\-empty is \-compliance old_empty.
|
|
.br
|
|
The options of genisoimage Jigdo Template Extraction are recognized and
|
|
performed via \fBxorriso\fR command \-jigdo. See the "Alias:" names there
|
|
for the meaning of the genisoimage options.
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
Personalities "\fBxorrisofs\fR", "\fBgenisoimage\fR",
|
|
and "\fBgenisofs\fR" are aliases for "mkisofs".
|
|
.br
|
|
If \fBxorriso\fR is started with one of the leafnames "xorrisofs",
|
|
"genisofs",
|
|
"mkisofs", or "genisoimage", then it performs \-read_mkisofsrc and prepends
|
|
\-as "genisofs" to the program arguments.
|
|
I.e. all arguments will be interpreted mkisofs style until "\-\-"
|
|
is encountered.
|
|
From then on, arguments are interpreted as \fBxorriso\fR commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\-no_rc as first argument of such a program start
|
|
prevents interpretation of startup files. See section FILES below.
|
|
.br
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|
|
Personality "\fBcdrecord\fR" accepts the options listed with:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-as cdrecord \-help \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
Among them: \-v, dev=, speed=, blank=, fs=, \-eject, \-atip, padsize=, tsize=,
|
|
\-isosize, \-multi, \-msinfo, \-\-grow_overwriteable_iso,
|
|
write_start_address=,
|
|
track source file path or "\-" for standard input as track source.
|
|
.br
|
|
It ignores most other options of cdrecord and cdrskin but refuses on
|
|
\-audio, \-scanbus, and on blanking modes unknown to \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
.br
|
|
The scope is only a single data track per session to be written
|
|
to blank, overwriteable, or appendable media. The medium gets closed if
|
|
closing is applicable and not option \-multi is present.
|
|
.br
|
|
If an input drive was acquired, then it is given up.
|
|
This is only allowed if no image changes are pending.
|
|
.br
|
|
dev= must be given as \fBxorriso\fR device address. Addresses like 0,0,0
|
|
or ATA:1,1,0 are not supported.
|
|
.br
|
|
If a track source is given, then an automatic \-commit happens at the end of
|
|
the "cdrecord" option list.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\-grow_overwriteable_iso
|
|
enables emulation of multi\-session on overwriteable
|
|
media. To enable emulation of a TOC, the first session needs \-C 0,32 with
|
|
\-as mkisofs (but no \-M) and \-\-grow_overwriteable_iso
|
|
write_start_address=32s with \-as cdrecord.
|
|
.br
|
|
A much more elaborate libburn based cdrecord emulator is the program cdrskin.
|
|
.br
|
|
Personalites "\fBxorrecord\fR", "\fBwodim\fR", and "\fBcdrskin\fR"
|
|
are aliases for "cdrecord".
|
|
.br
|
|
If \fBxorriso\fR is started with one of the leafnames "xorrecord",
|
|
"cdrskin", "cdrecord", or "wodim", then it automatically prepends \-as "cdrskin"
|
|
to the program arguments. I.e. all arguments will be interpreted cdrecord
|
|
style until "\-\-" is encountered.
|
|
From then on, arguments are interpreted as \fBxorriso\fR commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\-no_rc as first argument of such a program start
|
|
prevents interpretation of \fBxorriso\fR startup files.
|
|
See section FILES below.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-read_mkisofsrc\fR
|
|
Try one by one to open for reading:
|
|
./.mkisofsrc , $MKISOFSRC , $HOME/.mkisofsrc , $(dirname $0)/.mkisofsrc
|
|
.br
|
|
On success interpret the file content as of man mkisofs CONFIGURATION,
|
|
and end this command. Do not try further files.
|
|
The last address is used only if start argument 0 has a non\-trivial dirname.
|
|
.br
|
|
The reader currently interprets the following NAME=VALUE pairs:
|
|
APPI (\-application_id) , PUBL (\-publisher) , SYSI (\-system_id) ,
|
|
VOLI (\-volid) , VOLS (\-volset_id)
|
|
.br
|
|
Any other lines will be silently ignored.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pacifier\fR behavior_code
|
|
Control behavior of UPDATE pacifiers during write operations.
|
|
The following behavior codes are defined:
|
|
.br
|
|
"xorriso" is the default format:
|
|
.br
|
|
Writing: sector XXXXX of YYYYYY [fifo active, nn% fill]
|
|
.br
|
|
"cdrecord" looks like:
|
|
.br
|
|
X of Y MB written (fifo nn%) [buf mmm%]
|
|
.br
|
|
"mkisofs"
|
|
.br
|
|
nn% done, estimate finish Tue Jul 15 20:13:28 2008
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-scdbackup_tag\fR list_path record_name
|
|
Set the parameter "name" for a scdbackup checksum record.
|
|
It will be appended in an scdbackup checksum tag to the \-md5 session tag if
|
|
the image starts at LBA 0. This is the case if it gets written as first
|
|
session onto a sequential medium, or piped into a program, named pipe or
|
|
character device.
|
|
.br
|
|
If list_path is not empty then the record will also be appended to the
|
|
data file given by this path.
|
|
.br
|
|
Program scdbackup_verify will recognize and verify tag resp. record.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Scripting, dialog and program control features:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-no_rc\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
Only if used as first program argument this command
|
|
prevents reading and interpretation of startup files. See section FILES below.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-options_from_file\fR fileaddress
|
|
Read quoted input from fileaddress and execute it like dialog lines.
|
|
Empty lines and lines which begin by # are ignored. Normally one line
|
|
should hold one \fBxorriso\fR command and all its parameters.
|
|
Nevertheless lines may be concatenated by a trailing backslash.
|
|
.br
|
|
See also section "Command processing", paragraph "Quoted input".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-help\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
Print helptext.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-version\fR
|
|
Print program name and version, component versions, license.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_extras\fR code
|
|
Tell whether certain extra features were enabled at compile time.
|
|
Code "all" lists all features and a headline.
|
|
Other codes pick a single feature.
|
|
Code "codes" lists them. They share names with related commands
|
|
(see also there):
|
|
.br
|
|
"acl" tells whether xorriso has an adapter for local filesystems ACLs.
|
|
.br
|
|
"xattr" tells whether xorriso has an adapter for local filesystems EA.
|
|
.br
|
|
"jigdo" tells whether production of Jigdo files is possible.
|
|
.br
|
|
"zisofs" tells whether zisofs and built\-in gzip filters are enabled.
|
|
.br
|
|
"external_filter" tells whether external filter processes are allowed
|
|
and whether they are allowed if real user id and effective user id differ.
|
|
.br
|
|
"dvd_obs" tells whether 64 kB output to DVD media is default.
|
|
.br
|
|
"use_readline" tells whether readline may be enabled in dialog mode.
|
|
.br
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-history\fR textline
|
|
Copy textline into libreadline history.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-status\fR mode|filter
|
|
Print the current settings of \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
Modes:
|
|
.br
|
|
short... print only important or altered settings
|
|
.br
|
|
long ... print all settings including defaults
|
|
.br
|
|
long_history like long plus history lines
|
|
.br
|
|
Filters begin with '\-' and are compared literally against the
|
|
output lines of \-status:long_history. A line is put out only
|
|
if its start matches the filter text. No wildcards.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-status_history_max\fR number
|
|
Set maximum number of history lines to be reported with \-status "long_history".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-list_delimiter\fR word
|
|
Set the list delimiter to be used instead of "\-\-".
|
|
It has to be a single word,
|
|
must not be empty, not longer than 80 characters, and must not contain
|
|
quotation marks.
|
|
.br
|
|
For brevity the list delimiter is referred as "\-\-"
|
|
throughout this text.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-backslash_codes\fR "on"|"off"|mode[:mode]
|
|
Enable or disable the interpretation of symbolic representations of special
|
|
characters with quoted input, or with program arguments, or with program
|
|
text output. If enabled the following translations apply:
|
|
.br
|
|
\\a=bell(007) \\b=backspace(010) \\e=Escape(033) \\f=formfeed(014)
|
|
.br
|
|
\\n=linefeed(012) \\r=carriage_return(015) \\t=tab(011)
|
|
.br
|
|
\\v=vtab(013) \\\\=backslash(134) \\[0\-7][0\-7][0\-7]=octal_code
|
|
.br
|
|
\\x[0\-9a\-f][0\-9a\-f]=hex_code \\cC=control\-C
|
|
.br
|
|
Translations can occur with quoted input in 3 modes:
|
|
.br
|
|
"in_double_quotes" translates only inside " quotation.
|
|
.br
|
|
"in_quotes" translates inside " and ' quotation.
|
|
.br
|
|
"with_quoted_input" translates inside and outside quotes.
|
|
.br
|
|
With the start program arguments there is mode:
|
|
.br
|
|
"with_program_arguments" translates all program arguments.
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "encode_output" encodes output characters. It combines "encode_results"
|
|
with "encode_infos". Inside single or double quotation marks encoding applies
|
|
to 8\-bit characters octal 001 to 037 , 177 to 377 and to backslash(134).
|
|
Outside quotation marks some harmless ASCII control characters stay unencoded:
|
|
bell(007), backspace(010), tab(011), linefeed(012), formfeed(014),
|
|
carriage_return(015).
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode "off" is default and disables any translation.
|
|
Mode "on" is
|
|
"with_quoted_input:with_program_arguments:encode_output".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-temp_mem_limit\fR number["k"|"m"]
|
|
Set the maximum size of temporary memory to be used for image dependent
|
|
buffering. Currently this applies to pattern expansion, LBA sorting,
|
|
restoring of hard links.
|
|
.br
|
|
Default is 16m = 16 MiB, minimum 64k = 64 kiB, maximum 1024m = 1 GiB.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-print\fR text
|
|
Print a text line to the result channel which is by default stdout.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-print_info\fR text
|
|
Print a text line to the info channel which is by default stderr.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-print_mark\fR text
|
|
Print a text line to the mark channel which is by default directed to both,
|
|
result and info channel. An empty text will cause no output at all.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-prompt\fR text
|
|
Show text at beginning of output line and
|
|
wait for the user to hit the Enter key
|
|
resp. to send a line via stdin.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-sleep\fR seconds
|
|
Wait for the given number of seconds before perfoming the next command.
|
|
Expect coarse granularity no better than 1/100 seconds.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-errfile_log\fR mode path|channel
|
|
.br
|
|
If problem events are related to input files from the filesystem, then their
|
|
disk_paths can be logged to a file or to output channels R or I.
|
|
.br
|
|
Mode can either be "plain" or "marked". The latter causes marker lines which
|
|
give the time of log start, burn session start, burn session end, log end
|
|
or program end. In mode "plain", only the file paths are logged.
|
|
.br
|
|
If path is "\-" or "\-R" then the log is directed to the result channel.
|
|
Path "\-I" directs it to the info message channel. Any text that does not
|
|
begin with "\-" is used as path for a file to append the log lines.
|
|
.br
|
|
Problematic files can be recorded multiple times during one program run.
|
|
If the program run aborts then the list might not be complete because
|
|
some input files might not have been processed at all.
|
|
.br
|
|
The errfile paths are transported as messages of very low severity "ERRFILE".
|
|
This transport becomes visible with \-report_about "ALL".
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-session_log\fR path
|
|
If path is not empty it gives the address of a plain text file where
|
|
a log record gets appended after each session. This log can be used to
|
|
determine the start_lba of a session for mount options \-o sbsector=
|
|
resp. \-s from date or volume id.
|
|
.br
|
|
Record format is: timestamp start_lba size volume\-id
|
|
.br
|
|
The first three items are single words, the rest of the line is the volume id.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-scsi_log\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Mode "on" enables very verbous logging of SCSI commands and drive replies.
|
|
Logging messages get printed to stderr, not to any of the \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
output channels.
|
|
.br
|
|
A special property of this command is that the first \-scsi_log setting
|
|
among the start arguments is in effect already when the first operations
|
|
of \fBxorriso\fR begin.
|
|
Only "\-scsi_log" with dash "\-" is recognized that way.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-end\fR
|
|
.br
|
|
End program after writing pending changes.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-rollback_end\fR
|
|
Discard pending changes. End program immediately.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB#\fR any text
|
|
Only in dialog or file execution mode, and only as first
|
|
non\-whitespace in line:
|
|
Do not execute the line but store it in readline history.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B Support for frontend programs via stdin and stdout:
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-pkt_output\fR "on"|"off"
|
|
Consolidate text output on stdout and classify each
|
|
line by a channel indicator:
|
|
.br
|
|
'R:' for result lines,
|
|
.br
|
|
'I:' for notes and error messages,
|
|
.br
|
|
'M:' for \-mark texts.
|
|
.br
|
|
Next is a decimal number of which only bit 0 has a meaning for now.
|
|
0 means no newline at end of payload, 1 means that the newline character at
|
|
the end of the output line belongs to the payload. After another colon and
|
|
a blank follows the payload text.
|
|
.br
|
|
Example:
|
|
.br
|
|
I:1: enter option and parameters :
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-logfile\fR channel fileaddress
|
|
Copy output of a channel to the given file. Channel may be one of: "." for all
|
|
channels, "I" for info messages, "R" for result lines, "M" for \-mark texts.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-mark\fR text
|
|
If text is not empty it will get put out on "M" channel each time
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR is ready for the next dialog line or before
|
|
\fBxorriso\fR performs a command that was entered to the pager prompt.
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-prog\fR text
|
|
Use text as name of this program in subsequent messages
|
|
.TP
|
|
\fB\-prog_help\fR text
|
|
Use text as name of this program and perform \-help.
|
|
.br
|
|
.SH EXAMPLES
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Overview of examples:
|
|
As superuser learn about available drives
|
|
.br
|
|
Blank medium and compose a new ISO image as batch run
|
|
.br
|
|
A dialog session doing about the same
|
|
.br
|
|
Manipulate an existing ISO image on the same medium
|
|
.br
|
|
Copy modified ISO image from one medium to another
|
|
.br
|
|
Bring a prepared ISOLINUX tree onto medium and make it bootable
|
|
.br
|
|
Change existing file name tree from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
|
|
.br
|
|
Operate on storage facilities other than optical drives
|
|
.br
|
|
Burn an existing ISO image file to medium
|
|
.br
|
|
Perform multi-session runs as of cdrtools traditions
|
|
.br
|
|
Let xorriso work underneath growisofs
|
|
.br
|
|
Adjust thresholds for verbosity, exit value and program abort
|
|
.br
|
|
Examples of input timestrings
|
|
.br
|
|
Incremental backup of a few directory trees
|
|
.br
|
|
Restore directory trees from a particular ISO session to disk
|
|
.br
|
|
Try to retrieve blocks from a damaged medium
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B As superuser learn about available drives
|
|
On Linux or FreeBSD consider to give rw\-permissions to those users or groups
|
|
which shall be able to use the drives with \fBxorriso\fR.
|
|
On Solaris use pfexec. Consider to restrict privileges of \fBxorriso\fR to
|
|
"base,sys_devices" and to give r\-permission to user or group.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-device_links
|
|
.br
|
|
1 \-dev '/dev/cdrom1' rwrw\-\- : 'TSSTcorp' 'DVD\-ROM SH\-D162C
|
|
.br
|
|
1 \-dev '/dev/cdrw' rwrw\-\- : 'TSSTcorp' 'CDDVDW SH\-S223B'
|
|
.br
|
|
2 \-dev '/dev/cdrw3' rwrw\-\- : 'HL\-DT\-ST' 'BDDVDRW_GGC\-H20L'
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Blank medium and compose a new ISO image as batch run
|
|
Acquire drive /dev/sr2, make medium ready for writing a new image,
|
|
fill the image with the files from hard disk directories /home/me/sounds
|
|
and /home/me/pictures.
|
|
.br
|
|
Because no \-dialog "on" is given, the program will then end by writing the
|
|
session to the medium.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-outdev /dev/sr2 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-blank as_needed \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-map /home/me/sounds /sounds \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-map /home/me/pictures /pictures
|
|
.br
|
|
|
|
.br
|
|
The ISO image may be shaped in a more elaborate way like the following:
|
|
Omit some unwanted stuff by removing it from the image directory tree.
|
|
Reintroduce some wanted stuff.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ cd /home/me
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-outdev /dev/sr2 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-blank as_needed \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-map /home/me/sounds /sounds \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-map /home/me/pictures /pictures \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-rm_r \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/sounds/indecent \\
|
|
.br
|
|
'/pictures/*private*' \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/pictures/confidential \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-\- \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-cd / \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-add pictures/confidential/work* \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
Note that '/pictures/*private*' is a pattern for iso_rr_paths
|
|
while pictures/confidential/work* gets expanded by the shell
|
|
with addresses from the hard disk. Commands \-add and \-map have different
|
|
parameter rules but finally the same effect: they put files into the image.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B A dialog session doing about the same
|
|
.br
|
|
Some settings are already given as start argument. The other activities
|
|
are done as dialog input. The pager gets set to 20 lines of 80 characters.
|
|
.br
|
|
The drive is acquired by command \-dev rather than \-outdev in order to see
|
|
the message about its current content. By command \-blank this content is
|
|
made ready for being overwritten and the loaded ISO image is made empty.
|
|
.br
|
|
In order to be able to eject the medium, the session needs to be committed
|
|
explicitly.
|
|
.br
|
|
.B $ xorriso -dialog on -page 20 80 -disk_pattern on
|
|
.br
|
|
enter option and arguments :
|
|
.br
|
|
.B \-dev /dev/sr2
|
|
.br
|
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-blank as_needed
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-map /home/me/sounds /sounds -map /home/me/pictures /pictures
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-rm_r /sounds/indecent /pictures/*private* /pictures/confidential
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-cdx /home/me/pictures -cd /pictures
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-add confidential/office confidential/factory
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-du /
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enter option and arguments :
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.B \-commit_eject all -end
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.B Manipulate an existing ISO image on the same medium
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Load image from drive.
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Remove (i.e. hide) directory /sounds and its subordinates.
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Rename directory /pictures/confidential to /pictures/restricted.
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Change access permissions of directory /pictures/restricted.
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Add new directory trees /sounds and /movies.
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Burn to the same medium, check whether the tree can be loaded, and eject.
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$ xorriso \-dev /dev/sr2 \\
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\-rm_r /sounds \-\- \\
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\-mv \\
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/pictures/confidential \\
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/pictures/restricted \\
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\-\- \\
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\-chmod go\-rwx /pictures/restricted \-\- \\
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\-map /home/me/prepared_for_dvd/sounds_dummy /sounds \\
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\-map /home/me/prepared_for_dvd/movies /movies \\
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\-commit \-eject all
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.B Copy modified ISO image from one medium to another
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Load image from input drive. Do the same manipulations as in the previous
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example. Acquire output drive and blank it. Burn the modified image as
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first and only session to the output drive.
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$ xorriso \-indev /dev/sr2 \\
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\-rm_r /sounds \-\- \\
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...
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\-outdev /dev/sr0 \-blank as_needed \\
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\-commit \-eject all
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.SS
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.B Bring a prepared ISOLINUX tree onto medium and make it bootable
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The user has already created a suitable file tree on disk and copied the
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ISOLINUX files into subdirectory ./boot/isolinux of that tree.
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Now \fBxorriso\fR can burn an El Torito bootable medium:
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$ xorriso \-outdev /dev/sr0 \-blank as_needed \\
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\-map /home/me/ISOLINUX_prepared_tree / \\
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\-boot_image isolinux dir=/boot/isolinux
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.SS
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.B Change existing file name tree from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
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This example assumes that the existing ISO image was written with character
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set ISO\-8859\-1 but that the readers expected UTF\-8. Now a new session with
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the same files gets added with converted file names.
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In order to avoid any weaknesses of the local character set, this command
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pretends that it uses already the final target set UTF\-8.
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Therefore strange file names may appear in messages, which
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will be made terminal\-safe by command \-backslash_codes.
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.br
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$ xorriso \-in_charset ISO\-8859\-1 \-local_charset UTF\-8 \\
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.br
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\-out_charset UTF\-8 \-backslash_codes on \-dev /dev/sr0 \\
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\-alter_date m +0 / \-\- \-commit \-eject all
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.SS
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.B Operate on storage facilities other than optical drives
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Full read\-write operation is possible with regular files and block devices:
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$ xorriso \-dev /tmp/regular_file ...
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Paths underneath /dev normally need prefix "stdio:"
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$ xorriso \-dev stdio:/dev/sdb ...
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If /dev/sdb is to be used frequently and /dev/sda is the system disk,
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then consider to place the following lines in a \fBxorriso\fR Startup File.
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They allow to use /dev/sdb without prefix and protect disk /dev/sda
|
|
from \fBxorriso\fR:
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|
.br
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\-drive_class banned /dev/sda*
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|
.br
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\-drive_class harmless /dev/sdb
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Other writeable file types are supported write\-only:
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.br
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$ xorriso \-outdev /tmp/named_pipe ...
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Among the write\-only drives is standard output:
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|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-outdev \- \\
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|
.br
|
|
...
|
|
.br
|
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| gzip >image.iso.gz
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|
.SS
|
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.B Burn an existing ISO image file to medium
|
|
Actually this works with any kind of data, not only ISO images:
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|
.br
|
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$ xorriso \-as cdrecord \-v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=as_needed image.iso
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|
.SS
|
|
.B Perform multi-session runs as of cdrtools traditions
|
|
Between both processes there can be performed arbitrary transportation
|
|
or filtering.
|
|
.br
|
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The first session is written like this:
|
|
.br
|
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$ xorriso \-as mkisofs prepared_for_iso/tree1 | \\
|
|
.br
|
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xorriso \-as cdrecord \-v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=fast \-multi \-eject \-
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|
.br
|
|
Follow\-up sessions are written like this:
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|
.br
|
|
$ dd if=/dev/sr0 count=1 >/dev/null 2>&1
|
|
.br
|
|
$ m=$(xorriso \-as cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 \-msinfo)
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-as mkisofs \-M /dev/sr0 \-C $m prepared_for_iso/tree2 | \\
|
|
.br
|
|
xorriso \-as cdrecord \-v dev=/dev/sr0 \-waiti \-multi \-eject \-
|
|
.br
|
|
Always eject the drive tray between sessions. The old sessions
|
|
get read via /dev/sr0. Its device driver might not be aware
|
|
of the changed content before it loads the medium again.
|
|
In this case the previous session would not be loaded and the
|
|
new session would contain only the newly added files.
|
|
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|
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For the same reason do not let \fBxorriso\fR \-as cdrecord load the medium,
|
|
but rather do this manually or by a program that reads from /dev/sr0.
|
|
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|
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This example works for multi\-session media only.
|
|
Add cdrskin option \-\-grow_overwriteable_iso
|
|
to all \-as cdrecord runs
|
|
in order to enable multi\-session emulation on overwriteable media.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Let xorriso work underneath growisofs
|
|
growisofs expects an ISO formatter program which understands options \-C and
|
|
\-M. If \fBxorriso\fR gets started by name "xorrisofs" then it is suitable
|
|
for that.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ export MKISOFS="xorrisofs"
|
|
.br
|
|
$ growisofs \-Z /dev/dvd /some/files
|
|
.br
|
|
$ growisofs \-M /dev/dvd /more/files
|
|
.br
|
|
If no "xorrisofs" is available on your system, then you will have to create
|
|
a link pointing to the \fBxorriso\fR binary and tell growisofs to use it.
|
|
E.g. by:
|
|
.br
|
|
$ ln \-s $(which xorriso) "$HOME/xorrisofs"
|
|
.br
|
|
$ export MKISOFS="$HOME/xorrisofs"
|
|
.br
|
|
One may quit mkisofs emulation by argument "\-\-" and make
|
|
use of all \fBxorriso\fR commands. growisofs dislikes options which
|
|
start with "\-o" but \-outdev must be set to "\-".
|
|
So use "outdev" instead:
|
|
.br
|
|
$ growisofs \-Z /dev/dvd \-\- outdev \- \-update_r /my/files /files
|
|
.br
|
|
$ growisofs \-M /dev/dvd \-\- outdev \- \-update_r /my/files /files
|
|
.br
|
|
growisofs has excellent burn capabilities with DVD and BD.
|
|
It does not emulate session history on overwriteable media, though.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Adjust thresholds for verbosity, exit value and program abort
|
|
Be quite verbous, exit 32 if severity "FAILURE" was encountered,
|
|
do not abort prematurely but forcibly go on until the end of commands.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso ... \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-report_about UPDATE \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-return_with FAILURE 32 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-abort_on NEVER \\
|
|
.br
|
|
...
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Examples of input timestrings
|
|
.br
|
|
As printed by program date:
|
|
.B 'Thu Nov 8 14:51:13 CET 2007'
|
|
.br
|
|
The same without ignored parts:
|
|
.B 'Nov 8 14:51:13 2007'
|
|
.br
|
|
The same as expected by date:
|
|
.B 110814512007.13
|
|
.br
|
|
Four weeks in the future:
|
|
.B +4w
|
|
.br
|
|
The current time:
|
|
.B +0
|
|
.br
|
|
Three hours ago:
|
|
.B \-3h
|
|
.br
|
|
Seconds since Jan 1 1970:
|
|
.B =1194531416
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
|
|
.br
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|
.br
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|
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|
.SS
|
|
.B Incremental backup of a few directory trees
|
|
This changes the directory trees /open_source_project and /personal_mail
|
|
in the ISO image so that they become exact copies of their disk counterparts.
|
|
ISO file objects get created, deleted or get their attributes adjusted
|
|
accordingly.
|
|
.br
|
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ACL, xattr, hard links and MD5 checksums will be recorded.
|
|
Accelerated comparison is enabled at the expense of potentially larger backup
|
|
size. Only media with the expected volume id or blank media are accepted.
|
|
Files with names matching *.o or *.swp get excluded explicitly.
|
|
.br
|
|
When done with writing the new session gets checked by its recorded MD5.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-abort_on FATAL \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-for_backup \-disk_dev_ino on \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-assert_volid 'PROJECTS_MAIL_*' FATAL \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-dev /dev/sr0 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-volid PROJECTS_MAIL_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-not_leaf '*.o' \-not_leaf '*.swp' \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-update_r /home/thomas/projects /projects \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-update_r /home/thomas/personal_mail /personal_mail \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-commit \-toc \-check_md5 FAILURE \-\- \-eject all
|
|
.br
|
|
To be used several times on the same medium, whenever an update of
|
|
the two disk trees to the medium is desired. Begin with a blank medium and
|
|
update it until he run fails gracefully due to lack of remaining space on
|
|
the old one.
|
|
.br
|
|
This makes sense if the full backup leaves substantial remaining capacity
|
|
on media and if the expected changes are much smaller than the full backup.
|
|
To apply zisofs compression to those data files which get newly copied from
|
|
the local filesystem, insert these commands immediately before \-commit :
|
|
.br
|
|
\-hardlinks perform_update \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-find / \-type f \-pending_data \-exec set_filter \-\-zisofs \-\- \\
|
|
.br
|
|
Commands \-disk_dev_ino and \-for_backup depend on stable device and inode numbers
|
|
on disk. Without them, an update run may use \-md5 "on" to match recorded MD5
|
|
sums against the current file content on hard disk. This is usually much faster
|
|
than the default which compares both contents directly.
|
|
.br
|
|
With \fBmount\fR option \fB\-o "sbsector="\fR on GNU/Linux
|
|
resp. \fB\-s\fR on FreeBSD
|
|
it is possible to access the session trees which represent the older backup
|
|
versions. With CD media, GNU/Linux mount accepts session numbers directly by
|
|
its option "session=".
|
|
.br
|
|
Multi\-session media and most overwriteable media written by \fBxorriso\fR
|
|
can tell the sbsectors of their sessions by \fBxorriso\fR command \-toc.
|
|
Used after \-commit the following command prints the matching mount command for
|
|
the newly written session (here for mount point /mnt):
|
|
.br
|
|
\-mount_cmd "indev" "auto" "auto" /mnt
|
|
.br
|
|
Commands \-mount_cmd and \-mount are also able to produce the mount commands for
|
|
older sessions in the table\-of\-content. E.g. as superuser:
|
|
.br
|
|
# osirrox \-mount /dev/sr0 "volid" '*2008_12_05*' /mnt
|
|
.br
|
|
.sp 1
|
|
Above example produces a result similar to \-root / \-old\-root / with mkisofs.
|
|
For getting the session trees accumulated in the new sessions, let all \-update
|
|
commands use a common parent directory and clone it after updating is done:
|
|
.br
|
|
\-update_r /home/thomas/projects /current/projects \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-update_r /home/thomas/personal_mail /current/personal_mail \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-clone /current /"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" \\
|
|
.br
|
|
The cloned tree will have a name like /2011_02_12_155700.
|
|
.br
|
|
.sp 1
|
|
Sessions on multi\-session media are separated by several MB of unused blocks.
|
|
So with small sessions the payload capacity can become substantially lower
|
|
than the overall media capacity. If the remaining space on a medium does not
|
|
suffice for the next gap, the drive is supposed to close the medium
|
|
automatically.
|
|
.br
|
|
.sp 1
|
|
\fBBetter do not use your youngest backup for \-update_r\fR.
|
|
Have at least two media which you use alternatingly. So only older backups
|
|
get endangered by the new write operation, while the newest backup is
|
|
stored safely on a different medium.
|
|
.br
|
|
Always have a blank medium ready to perform a full backup in case the update
|
|
attempt fails due to insufficient remaining capacity. This failure will
|
|
not spoil the old medium, of course.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Restore directory trees from a particular ISO session to disk
|
|
This is an alternative to mounting the medium and using normal file operations.
|
|
.br
|
|
First check which backup sessions are on the medium:
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-outdev /dev/sr0 \-toc
|
|
.br
|
|
Then load the desired session and copy the file trees to disk.
|
|
Enable restoring of ACL, xattr and hard links.
|
|
Avoid to create /home/thomas/restored without rwx\-permission.
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-for_backup \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-load volid 'PROJECTS_MAIL_2008_06_19*' \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-indev /dev/sr0 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-osirrox on:auto_chmod_on \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-chmod u+rwx / \-\- \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-extract /open_source_projects \\
|
|
.br
|
|
/home/thomas/restored/open_source_projects \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-extract /personal_mail /home/thomas/restored/personal_mail \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-rollback_end
|
|
.br
|
|
The final command \-rollback_end prevents an error message about the altered
|
|
image being discarded.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Try to retrieve blocks from a damaged medium
|
|
.br
|
|
$ xorriso \-abort_on NEVER \-indev /dev/sr0 \\
|
|
.br
|
|
\-check_media time_limit=1800 report=blocks_files \\
|
|
.br
|
|
data_to="$HOME"/dvd_copy sector_map="$HOME"/dvd_copy.map \-\-
|
|
.br
|
|
This can be repeated several times, if necessary with \-eject or with other
|
|
\-indev drives. See the human readable part of "$HOME"/dvd_copy.map for
|
|
addresses which can be used on "$HOME"/dvd_copy with mount option \-o sbsector=
|
|
resp. \-s.
|
|
.SH FILES
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Program alias names:
|
|
.br
|
|
Normal installation of \fBxorriso\fR creates three links or copies which by their
|
|
program name pre\-select certain settings:
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorrisofs\fR starts \fBxorriso\fR with \-as mkisofs emulation.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBxorrecord\fR starts \fBxorriso\fR with \-as cdrecord emulation.
|
|
.br
|
|
\fBosirrox\fR starts with \-osirrox "on:o_excl_off" which allows
|
|
to copy files from ISO image to disk and to apply command \-mount to
|
|
one or more of the existing ISO sessions.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Startup files:
|
|
.br
|
|
If not \-no_rc is given as the first argument then \fBxorriso\fR attempts on startup
|
|
to read and execute lines from the following files:
|
|
.br
|
|
/etc/default/xorriso
|
|
.br
|
|
/etc/opt/xorriso/rc
|
|
.br
|
|
/etc/xorriso/xorriso.conf
|
|
.br
|
|
$HOME/.xorrisorc
|
|
.br
|
|
The files are read in the sequence given above, but none of them is required
|
|
to exist. The line format is described with command \-options_from_file.
|
|
.br
|
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If mkisofs emulation was enabled by program name "xorrisofs", "mkisofs",
|
|
"genisoimage", or "genisofs", then afterwards \-read_mkisofsrc is performed,
|
|
which reads .mkisofsrc files. See there.
|
|
.SS
|
|
.B Runtime control files:
|
|
.br
|
|
The default setting of \-check_media abort_file= is:
|
|
.br
|
|
/var/opt/xorriso/do_abort_check_media
|
|
.br
|
|
.SH SEE ALSO
|
|
.TP
|
|
For the mkisofs emulation of xorriso
|
|
.BR xorrisofs(1)
|
|
.TP
|
|
For the cdrecord emulation of xorriso
|
|
.BR xorrecord(1)
|
|
.TP
|
|
For mounting xorriso generated ISO 9660 images (-t iso9660)
|
|
.BR mount(8)
|
|
.TP
|
|
Libreadline, a comfortable input line facility
|
|
.BR readline(3)
|
|
.TP
|
|
Other programs which produce ISO 9660 images
|
|
.BR mkisofs(8),
|
|
.BR genisoimage(8)
|
|
.TP
|
|
Other programs which burn sessions to optical media
|
|
.BR growisofs(1),
|
|
.BR cdrecord(1),
|
|
.BR wodim(1),
|
|
.BR cdrskin(1)
|
|
.TP
|
|
ACL and xattr
|
|
.BR getfacl(1),
|
|
.BR setfacl(1),
|
|
.BR getfattr(1),
|
|
.BR setfattr(1)
|
|
.TP
|
|
MD5 checksums
|
|
.BR md5sum(1)
|
|
.TP
|
|
On FreeBSD the commands for xattr and MD5 differ
|
|
.BR getextattr(8),
|
|
.BR setextattr(8),
|
|
.BR md5(1)
|
|
.SH BUGS
|
|
To report bugs, request help, or suggest enhancements for \fBxorriso\fR,
|
|
please send electronic mail to the public list <bug\-xorriso@gnu.org>.
|
|
If more privacy is desired, mail to <scdbackup@gmx.net>.
|
|
.br
|
|
Please describe what you expect \fBxorriso\fR to do,
|
|
the program arguments resp. commands by which you tried to achieve it,
|
|
the messages of \fBxorriso\fR, and the undesirable outcome of your
|
|
program run.
|
|
.br
|
|
Expect to get asked more questions before solutions can be proposed.
|
|
.SH AUTHOR
|
|
Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
|
|
.br
|
|
for libburnia\-project.org
|
|
.SH COPYRIGHT
|
|
Copyright (c) 2007 \- 2012 Thomas Schmitt
|
|
.br
|
|
Permission is granted to distribute this text freely. It shall only be
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modified in sync with the technical properties of \fBxorriso\fR.
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If you make use of the license to derive modified versions of
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\fBxorriso\fR then you are entitled to modify this text under that
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same license.
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.SH CREDITS
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\fBxorriso\fR is in part based on work by Vreixo Formoso who provides
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libisofs together with Mario Danic who also leads the libburnia team.
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Thanks to Andy Polyakov who invented emulated growing,
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to Derek Foreman and Ben Jansens who once founded libburn.
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Compliments towards Joerg Schilling whose cdrtools served me for ten years.
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