On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 07:31:40PM -0400, Bill White wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a problem with putting an ext2 file system on > a CDROM in the same way one usually does an iso9660 file system? That is, > if I write a program which creates an ext2 filesystem as a big file, and > pipe it to cdrecord or something like that, can I reliably mount the CDROM > and read from it? I know that (1) I can't write to it like a hard disk, > since it's read only and (2) creating the ext2 filesystem is a small matter > of programming. > > I have tried this by dding a tiny little, wee filesystem (my /boot partion, > which has about 5Mb) directly into cdrecord. It seemed to work, as the > diff told me that data on both the original and the CDROM were identical. > But I want to use this as a backup mechanism, and I would not like to do a > lot of work on it, only to find out that it is known to be unreliable. This is not a problem. You can make ext2 cdroms. See also the CD-Writing-HOWTO. Grisu -- Michael Bramer -- a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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