On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:20:29PM -0500, Korey O'Dell wrote: > True, few people would, but these are only for my use. I want to do > simply e2fs because: > No intermediate file created, disk space is a problem at times. > No need to mess with large tar files later on. > Quick browsing of the CD contents.
You do need something intermediate unless your machine is pretty fast (p3 800 seems to do it easily). You can't copy a subdir as e2fs. Onlya complete partition. Anything else will require using something to create a new filesystem, although it can be done on the fly with mkisofs. I often use this mkisofs -r -J . -o - | cdrecord -dev 0,1,0 -eject -speed 8 -v fs=8m - That writes the current dir to a cd. Ofcourse doing mkisofs -r -J -printsize . first is a good plan to make sure the size will be ok. Doing e2fs from a subdir will require an intermediate step of create a file to mke2fs on, mount as loop device, copy files, unmount, write to cd. Not a good plan. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
