On 16-Nov-00 Bret Hughes wrote:
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
>>
>> > > mount -t iso9660 isofilename -o loop=/dev/loop0,rw mountpoint
>> > >
>> >
>> > I thought when I saw this, of course, the type option! But no luck.
>> > Mount
>> > still reports it as rw but I stil get the dreaded read only filesytem.
>> > Any
>> > thing Else I can try? FWIW this is a redhat 6.0 machine with all the
>> > errata
>> > upgrades.
>>
>> You can't mount an iso9660 filesystem read-write. The kernel doesn't (and
>> probably won't ever) support it.
>>
>> iso9660 was never meant to be a writable file system, it's designed to be
>> reasonably efficient for write-once, read forever situations.
>
> Thanks Bero, I was beginning to think that. I guess I need to extract the
> files
> from the iso. Is there a way to do that and keep all the symlinks too?
2 ways come to mind:
in either case mount the cd (to /mnt/cdrom in this example), and have a
directory on a partition with 650 (or how much ever) disk free:
1) cd /mnt/cdrom; tar -cpf - . | (cd <directory to unpack to> ; tar -xvpf - )
or
2) cd /mnt/cdrom; find . | cpio -pdmv <directory>
as I recall, one of these sets the owner of symlinks incorrectly, and the other
preserves the owner, but pragmatically speaking, that's a non-issue. I believe
that they both will copy properly all special files (pipes, devices, etc.)
-Greg
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