[vox-tech] burn directories to CDs

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Tue Oct 28 15:27:48 PDT 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:15:35PM -0700, harke wrote:
> You'll first need a file system on the cd
> so you could do
>      mkfs -t ext2 /dev/cdrom
> 
> Notice that it is perfectly feasible to put an ext2 file system
> on a cd Of course certain other operating systems will not be
> able to read it.

Is that totally true?  I know I was able to read ext2 contents off of
a hard drive via an external USB enclosure under Windows XP with the help
of *covering mouth and muttering incoherently*[1].

[1] Whatever it was, you can find it via Google, like I did. :)

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