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Date:      Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:29:52 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>
Cc:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mkisofs and directories
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904151826030.24073@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <1239806894.86545.12.camel@pukruppa.net>
References:  <permail-2009041422182680e26a0b00004c0e-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <ade45ae90904142222r540e449ctb33b3077b822c08a@mail.gmail.com> <1239806894.86545.12.camel@pukruppa.net>

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 23:22 -0600 schrieb Tim Judd:
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Best <
>> alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>>
>>> this is a question that's always been bugging me:
>>>
>>> when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it always ads the 
>>> contents of that directory to the iso. how can i tell mkisofs that i 
>>> want the actual directory (including all it's contents) to be added 
>>> to the iso?
>>
>> unix naming convention normally dictates the following:
>> cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/
>> # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it
>> cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/
>> # will copy contents of dir into /mnt
> That was what I thought it should do - but it doesn't!

Look at the -graft-points option to mkisofs.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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