On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:03:53PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Yesterday i lost a 2,3 GB big file because mkisofs "silently" skipped it. > > >mkisofs ... $dir && rm -rf $dir > > >I had the luck that i can reget that file. But next time it's possibel > >that i'm not so lucky. So it would be best to "die" instead of a "silent" > >warning that a file was skipped. (At least as a commandline-option. > >Something like the "Make warnings to errors" from compilers (this can be > >especially usefull for scripts where the warnings aren't seen (Today i saw > >the warning because i was watching the process today)). Or a special > >option "die when files are too big") > > > mkisofs definitey does not skip those files silently! > > It prints: "File %s is too large - ignoring\n" > > It is not possible to put files > 2 GB into a ISO-9660 fs.
Like i said. In a script that IS silent. start script, "(go/look) away", script done, source-dir deleted, image too small -> file lost. (Warning scrolled away. Yes i prefere the console) Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
