making ISO images

[Sean]

#!/bin/sh
tar -cvpfM --blocking-factor = [#of 512 byte blocks]  \
eds_badass_backups.tar \
/home/ed/pr0n \
/home/ed/pr0n_movies \
/home/ed/Little_black_book

or something like that.

Akriea uses tar with the L option so it ejects the the tape.



On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Edward Glowacki wrote:

> Quoted from Sean on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:36:59AM -0400:
> > tar with  -M, --multi-volume
> >               create/list/extract multi-volume archive
> > ??
> >
> > I don't know if that will work or not though but it sounds better then the
> > L option...
>
> =P  Problem is not everything is in one directory, and I have more
> than one CD worth of stuff at any rate.  What I really want is to
> select directories and/or files to include, have it add up the
> sizes as I go, then say "make me an ISO image with all these files.
> call it '/tmp/ed-data-1.iso'.  *crunch crunch crunch*"  Ideally this
> would be done via one of the commander-style programs (midnight
> commander, windows commander, etc.)
>
> Basically I don't want to sit there all day with some command-line
> program adding stuff one directory at a time.
>
> Maybe I just need to work on creating my own filemanager that has
> all the features I want...  support for CVS/CVSup/RCS, support for
> building ISO images (or actually generating a list of files to process
> via arbitrary external command would probably be enough for that),
> easy access to switch between hide/unhide hidden files (dotfiles),
> virtual filesystems (nothing new there, except the VFS's that I
> might want to add, like certain filetypes [email boxes, maybe XML files,
> etc.]), um who knows what else... =P
>
>
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