Re: tlug: Preparing the isofs for burning CDs

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 06:49:46PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     >> bash> /sbin/mke2fs empty_file
> 
>     >> empty_file is not a block special device.
> 
>     >> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> 
> Ah, I forgot I had this resource.  But it doesn't speak to my
> question; I want to add to an ISO 9660 file system, which it is not
> designed for.  mkisofs doesn't act like other mk*fs's.
> 
> Among other things, my mother's Windose box wouldn't be able to read a
> CD containing an ext2 file system full of pictures of her
> granddaughter, rather distressing don't you think?

I have never even used mkisofs, but if I read the context correctly, it
takes an existing, contiguious filesystem and creates an image of it in
an iso9660-dialect filesystem?

If so, and if you have scadoodles of disk space lying around, why not
cp -R the things you need in to a single ext2 (or whatever) directory, and
then run mkisofs on that?  You might be able to handle the links problem
by running the fs structures through tar (or cpio?) on the way to the ext2
directory, with an option to resolve soft links instead of preserving
them -- don't know whether this will work on directories though.

It does sound like you'll not be able to avoid some fiddly bits, but this
should save some fingerwork?

Hoping this is not too far off the mark,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
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Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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