Re: growisofs' -M option do not remove old files?

[Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>]

在 2007-02-01四的 10:29 +0800，Zhang Weiwu写道：
> Maybe I am stupid (had several stupid ones before) but I think there is
> a difference between Windows' Nero Burning Rom's "append from previous
> session" (rough translation) and mkisofs's -M option:
> 
> With Nero Burning Rom => if a file was on DVD old session and no longer
> on my harddisk, the new session is created without a link to that file
> (a.k.a. unless you mount previous session, the newly created DVD will
> looking like the file is removed from DVD's old session).
> 
> With growisofs -M option => if a file was on DVD old session and no
> longer on my harddisk, the newly burnt DVD still have that file. -M
> option simply does the merge, means old files + new files.
> 
> And what I want is Nero Burning Rom's behavior. I don't know how other
> people think but I think most desktop users who use DVD to back up their
> home diretory is looking for Nero Burning Rom's behavior. Can I supply
> some more parameters to growisofs so that it behave like Nero?
> 
> Thanks!

Now I can answer my question myself after RTFW.
The option is: "-old-root /"

Adding this option makes growisofs do not include the files already
removed on hdd in new session