Thanks breatt. I guess I should've been more specific but I didn't want to
go into the growisofs command I was using. I am acatually writing on the
fly to a DVD+RW. If I use the command:

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J /var

I get all the subdirectories of /var/ written to my DVD+RW when really I
want them all to reside in /var on the DVD+RW. There is no manual for the
command growisofs as it utilizes mkisofs and all the mkisofs switches so

growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J /var

is translated into:

mkisofs -graft-points -R -J . | dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0

(as the program echos this when it writes).

Any ideas?

Thanks :)

melinda

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Brett Fenton wrote:

::i could be wrong but:
::
::># mkisofs -o home.iso /home (or include -v before the -o for a
::verbose output)
::
::regards
::brett
::
:::> -----Original Message-----
:::> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:::> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
:::> Melinda Taylor
:::> Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 1:57 PM
:::> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:::> Subject: [SLUG] mkisofs
:::>
:::>
:::>
:::> Silly question if I am trying to backup /home using
:::> mkisofs what is the
:::> switch to tell it to write /home to the CD as well instead of just
:::> the users directories inside /home?
:::>
:::> So instead of
:::>
:::> /user1
:::> /user2
:::>
:::> write
:::>
:::> /home/user1
:::> /home/user2
:::>
:::> I have read the man but maybe i am just going blind, even
:::> worse I am sure
:::> I remember doing it before as well....I thought the
:::> -graft-points would
:::> work but maybe my syntax is wrong. Or maybe the directory
:::> has to exist
:::> already.
:::>
:::> Thanks,
:::>
:::> Melinda
:::>
:::>
:::>
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