Re: Mounting ISO9660 read-write?

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

> I've tried a couple of iterations of mount with no success. Any
> ideas? Is there some property of the CD image that keeps me
> from mounting it read-write?

IIRC, the last time I looked into this, a 9660 filesystem can't
be mounted r/w under Linux.  The entire design of the
filesystem's structure is predicated on the assumption that
it's read-only, and it would take a lot of work to make it
writable (e.g. you may have to shuffle the whole fs around
everytime a write happens).

What I do is:

 1) mount it r/o
 2) duplicate it using cp -a or tar
 3) modify the copy
 4) create a new ISO image.

That's fine for small filesystems, but for a full CD, it's a
royal PITA. If anybody knows an easier way, pipe up...

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