Another option might be to use hardlinks to the required files -
	that way the extra copy will only need space for the directory
	entries and inode data (probably a few dozen K).

	You can use the -l option to pax to create linked trees.

                David/absolute
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Bruce Martin wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I am currently happily burning CDs using the mkisofs/cdrecord combination. I
> am not wanting to put files from one path onto a CD, but rather files from
> all over the disk in all sorts of diretories. At the moment I am first
> gathering all 650MB of files into one directory path, and then running
> mkisofs on that path. However, for various reasons, I can't afford to use
> 650MB of disk space to get second copies of all the files: I need to take
> file by file and stream it into 'mkisofs' with the output going to cdrecord.
> 
> Has anyone done anything similar to this? Is there an easy way to do it with
> the existing 'mkisofs', or will I need to modify it significantly?
> 
> Thanks
>  Bruce Martin
> 
> 
>