Hi, i got a little experiment for you to check whether the .mo~ files really eat up 2.7 MB in your ISO. They would not if they were hardlinks in the /tmp/grub.* directory.
$ path_to_iso=./output.iso $ xorriso -indev "$path_to_iso" -find / -name '[email protected]*' -exec report_lba -- ... Report layout: xt , Startlba , Blocks , Filesize , ISO image path File data lba: 0 , 3151 , 73 , 147664 , '/boot/grub/locale/[email protected]' $ If you see two lines with identical numbers, like File data lba: 0 , 3151 , 73 , 147664 , '/boot/grub/locale/[email protected]' File data lba: 0 , 3151 , 73 , 147664 , '/boot/grub/locale/[email protected]~' then both files share the same content storage in the ISO. The waste would only be about a few dozen ISO 9660 directory records with about a hundred bytes each. Have a nice day :) Thomas
