Try useing -J -R
Good Luck
Jake
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, George Avrunin wrote:
> I've just installed a CD writer and am trying to use it for backups
> but have encountered a problem that I don't understand. On an
> essentially stock Red Hat 6.1 (Intel) installation, with all updates,
> and using the mkisofs-cdrecord-1.8a40-4rh6.1 rpm from
> ftp.falsehope.com, if I tell mkisofs to include /usr/src/linux-2.2.12,
> it gets everything in that directory hierarchy. But if I ask for
> /usr/src, the iso9660 file system has a directory
> /usr/src/linux-2.2.12 but nothing below that point, at least as far as
> I can tell by mounting it on the loopback device. I've tried this
> from the command line and using the gcombust front-end, with various
> combinations of flags, with the same results.
>
> It doesn't seem to be a question of the directory depth, since I could
> create a test file system with depth of at least 10 and see all the
> files at each level.
>
> I don't know very much about the ISO9660 standard and its extensions,
> or mkisofs, so I'm pretty much at a loss here. I'd be grateful for
> suggestions, pointers to the relevant documentation, etc. (I'd also
> be interested in suggestions about ways to use CDs for backups. I
> realize that it might go faster and use fewer CDs to write, say,
> bzipped tar files for backups, with the tradeoff of not being able to
> get at the files directly by mounting a CD.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> George Avrunin
>
>
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