How to burn a ext3 file system on a cd?

[fred smith]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:02:27PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:49:57 +0100, Hans Müller wrote:
> 
> > how can i burn a ext3 filesysrtem on a cd?
> 
> You can't. At least not directly.
> 
> One work-around would be to create an ext3 filesystem in a file (with the
> help of a loop device) and use mkisofs to wrap that ext3 image file into
> an ISO 9660 CD filesystem and then burn the ISO to CD. However, that would
> give you one big file on the CD which you would have to mount via a loop
> device everytime you want to read the files stored within.
> 
> -- 

Now, I may be talking thru my hat, having never done it, but...
couldn't you just burn that file (created by copying stuff into the 
loop-back-ed ext3 file system) directly to the CD as if it were an
ISO image? Surely cdrecord doesn't care what's in an "image file"
it burns to CD?

Fred

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