harke wrote: > On Monday 27 October 2008 11:03, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Brian Lavender wrote: >>> I want to take a file system and burn it to CDs. But I want the files on >>> the CDs visible and not in some split tar or cpio format. Say I have a >>> directory with various sub directories and 2000 photos that I can burn >>> to multiple CDs that still maintains the directory structure. >>> >>> brian >> Did you want a CLI or Graphical tool. K3B does exactly what you want but >> it's graphical. Under gnome you could also try Brasero but I haven't >> used it that much. >> >> Alex > > You could use cpio with the pass-through option. his does > not use or create an archive. You'll probably need some other options > like make-directories
I am mystified why (or how) one would use cpio to copy files to a cdrom. Can you elaborate? I guess Brian was attempting to use a disk backup tool rather than a cd burning tool. I have used the following: cmdline: cdrecord ... need to generate an ISO with mkisofs, but this can be done on the fly. GUI: K3B data mode... works great, less bother. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech