[ILUG] Alternative filesystems on a DVD

[Malcolm Tyrrell]

> I think this is legitimate behaviour on the part of mkisofs. It's
> trying to put the contents of Dir1 in the root of the filesystem, and
> also the contents of Dir2 in the root of the filesystem.

By Jove, that's it! Thanks.

> ( mkisofs -o image.iso -R ../Temp would work )

It does!

But what if there is no overarching directory? In my case I
want to backup three partitions, but I certainly don't want to
backup /.

A quick fix (which seems to work for my system) is to create a little
directory of symbolic links to the partitions I want, and tell mkisofs
to follow links. But what if the partitions themselves contained links
that pointed all over the shop?

Hmmm,

Malx.