tlug: Re: tlug-digest V1 #1147

["Eric S. Standlee" <fwiw3980@example.com>]

Since I am on the digest, this may already be answered.  But, can't you
just makefs an iso9660 fs on a new partition and then mount that mount -t
iso9660?

Just my two bits,

Eric S. Standlee
Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
e-w.standlee@example.com
fwiw3980@example.com <default>

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, tlug-digest wrote:

> 
> tlug-digest         Friday, February 19 1999         Volume 01 : Number 1147
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:58:29 +0900 (JST)
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
> Subject: tlug: Preparing the isofs for burning CDs
> 
> I'd like to archive a bunch of stuff I currently have spread all over
> several file systems on several systems in an organized way on CD.  I
> have two problems (files I don't want to archive and the large number
> of FSes) that suggest a good solution would be to build the ISO9660
> image on an HD partition incrementally.
> 
> It would be most convenient if I could just cd into the various
> directories and cp stuff across to the ISO9660 image.  Is this
> possible?
> 
> Also, are there optimizations of FS organization I should consider?
> At the moment, I have some archives (mail especially) that look like
> this (`->' means a symlink or NFS mount):
> 
> mail/
>      folder1
>      folder2
>      archive/ -> /var/archive/mail/
>              folder1.1998
>              folder1.1997
>              folder2.1998
>              really-old/ -> otherbox:/var/nfs-exports/mail-archives
>                         folder1.1996
> 
> and so on.  mkisofs doesn't handle this kind of thing gracefully (to
> say the least), and if you specify ~/mail, /var/archive/mail, and
> otherbox:/var/nfs-exports/mail-archives the various instances of
> folder1 will probably be randomly and widely separated on the CD which
> is probably not the best organization (eg for grep'ing).
> 
> Is it possible to ensure that groups of files end up in easily
> sequentially accessible places on the CD?  Of course I could use
> glimpse, but that doesn't help much for many complicated regexps.
> 
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