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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Cc: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>,
	Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>,
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Subject: Re: mkisofs and directories
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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