David Brownlee wrote:
>>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).

It's not quite as simple as that: the data I want to archive is actually raw
data on a raw disk partition, and I want to assign it filenames and burn it
to the CD on the fly - any ideas how I would do that?

Thanks
 Bruce