mkisofs -dvd-video from a fat32 filesystem

[Darxus at chaosreigns.com (Darxus at chaosreigns.com)]

I just got a Plextor PX-504A IDE DVD+R/RW, and a 250gb hard drive.  Hard
drive has a 5gb swap partition, and the rest is 1 vfat (fat32) partition,
because I want to use it as a data drive shared with windows (98), and to
my knowledge, this is the only filesystem that is readable and writable by
both OSes and can be used on a 228GB partition.  (I flashed my BIOS to
handle the 137gb+ disk.)

I'm trying to back up one of my (video) DVDs.

I extracted the data from the DVD successfully using dvdbackup.  The next
step is to build a DVD image from the data using mkisofs -dvd-video.
Problem is, mkisofs -dvd-video requires the input files to be all
uppercase to sort properly for a valid UDF filesystem.  While dvdbackup
did output the files in all uppercase, the vfat filesystem forgets the
case and reports them in all lowercase.

I haven't been able to find a way to mount a vfat filesystem so that all
files are displayed uppercase.  umsdos filesystem doesn't seem to be
helpful (tried it, with a few different mount options).  

I can do 
 mkisofs -sort sort.file -dvd-video
and manually create the sort.file.  But.. I haven't found any confirmation
that that will create a valid UDF filesystem.  (I'm in the process of
trying this, but would like to avoid more expensive coasters)

As a last resort, I could repartition this disk into half ext3 and half
fat32, but... that would be a pretty unhappy solution.


The cdrtools (cdrecord,mkisofs,etc.) author is nolonger accepting support
emails, and there doesn't seem to be a mailing list other than for active
developers.  Maybe I'll end up posting to the dev list and seeing if they'd
accept a patch to sort all lowercase files properly.

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