[Nottingham] mkisofs weirdness

[Robert Hart]

Works for me.

Care to share the exact commandline you used, and the contents of
whatever file your -exclude-list pointed to?

Rob

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 14:04, James Gibbon wrote:
> Last night, using mkisofs, I wrote a dvd image of a directory tree I
> wanted to back up.  To my surprise, despite having excluded a huge chunk
> of it (using -exclude-list), the iso was the same size as the whole
> directory.  I repeated the exercise using -v (verbose), checking the
> output - mkisofs had correctly confirmed my exclusion list and claimed
> to be excluding the directories I had specified in the exclude file. 
> Mounting the iso and nosing around confirmed that the files didn't
> _appear_ to be present.
> 
> However, the iso was still massively larger than the files mkisofs had
> claimed to have written, so I concluded that the exclude files _had_
> actually been written to the iso in some inaccessible manner - they had
> just been excluded from the directory listing.
> 
> As a workaround, I used tar on the directory tree somewhere else, using
> tar's -X option, which does work properly, than ran mkisofs on the copy.  
> 
> But does anyone know how to get mkisofs to do the right thing?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
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