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ISO - mkisofs options

Command Option	Description
-b

The pathname must be relative to the source path specified to mkisofs. Required to make a bootable CD. The boot image must be exactly the size of either a 1.2, 1.44, or a 2.88 meg floppy.|

-c

The pathname must be relative to the source path specified to mkisofs.|

-l	Allow 31 character file names. CD will not be 8.3 DOS compatible. (Who cares! Thus use this option.)
-o	Name of iso9660 output image file.
-r	Set file permissions on CD to be publicly readable.
-v	Verbose execution.
-x	Exclude given path from being written to CDROM.
-A	Text string that will be written into the volume header.
-J

This preserves the case (upper/lower) of file and directory names. Useful for use with MS/Windows environments.|

-L -allow-leading-dots	Allows files to begin with “.” (period). Use this option to write Unix/Linux hidden files. CD will not be DOS compatible. (Who cares! Thus use this option.)
-allow-multidot	Allows files to contain multiple “.”s (periods). Use this option to write Unix/Linux files which may contain more than one period. CD will not be DOS compatible. (Who cares! Thus use this option.)
-R	Add Rock Ridge records to further describe the files. Preserves filename length and case.
-V	Specifies the volume ID to be written into the master block.
-T	Generate a file TRANS.TBL in each directory.
-graft-points	Translate a directory to the root (“/”) of the CD. See examples. (i.e.: -graft-points “/=DirectoryName/”)
-pad	Default (not necessary to specify this option). Pads the end of the whole image by 150 sectors (300 kB). Avoids read ahead errors on last file.