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genisoimage — Pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystems. More information: <https://

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Problem

How to use the genisoimage command: Pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystems. More information: <https://manned.org/genisoimage>.

Solution

genisoimage — Pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystems. More information: <https://manned.org/genisoimage>.

Create an ISO image from the given source directory:

genisoimage -o {{myimage.iso}} {{path/to/source_directory}}

Create an ISO image with files larger than 2GiB by reporting a smaller apparent size for ISO9660 filesystems:

genisoimage -o -allow-limited-size {{myimage.iso}} {{path/to/source_directory}}

Code Snippets

Create an ISO image from the given source directory

genisoimage -o {{myimage.iso}} {{path/to/source_directory}}

Create an ISO image with files larger than 2GiB by reporting a smaller apparent size for ISO9660 filesystems

genisoimage -o -allow-limited-size {{myimage.iso}} {{path/to/source_directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/genisoimage

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