On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:10 -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:49:27AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:56 -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > > harke wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > > > > You could use cpio with the pass-through option. his does > > > > not use or create an archive. You'll probably need some other options > > > > like make-directories > > > > > > I am mystified why (or how) one would use cpio to copy files to a cdrom. > > > Can you elaborate? > > > > $ find . -print | cpio -p /dev/cdrom ? ;-) > > What happens when the CD fills up?
This is more of a wish (joke) than anything else. If I remember correctly, CDs must write completely in one pass to be successful. That's why you need to build a temporary filesystem (iso) first. > > I have four CDs worth of data. When one fills up, put the remaining > on the second CD, and then when that fills up the next, and so on, > until base condition is reached and the all the data has been copied to > a series of CDs. > > brian _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
