>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Davidsen)
>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
>> > > > What is the nature of the mounted filesystem?
>> > >
>> > > This is a local system. It is my dual boot PC at home. I need to back the
>> > > windows hard disk as it crsahed for good.
>> >
>> > Yes, that sure could explain not being able to read parts of it. I
>> > think that qualifies as "non-POSIX behaviour" for sure. Hope you were
>> > able to salvage enough to be useful.
>>
>> So it isn't a mkisofs fault, is it?
> Right.
>> Is there any way of telling mkisofs to carry on making the image regardless the
>> error messages?
> If it were me and I had enough disk for a copy of the filesystem, I'd
>copy the data to another directory and backup whatever made it. As I
>recall cp may stop on error, so you could use cpio or so.
>- mkdir /tmp/DOScopy
>- cd /DOS
>- find . | cpio -pdm /tmp/DOScopy
>- mkisofs [ options ] -o /tmp/DOSbkup.iso /tmp/DOScopy
I am not sure if cpio is available for win32. Star is....
J�rg
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