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Re: [debian-knoppix] create_compress_fs : too big file !!!



Klaus Knopper wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:26:05PM +0200, Baeckeroot alain wrote:
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The file is now 715 MB instead of 700 !!! so it doesn't fit into my CD !!!


No, you are just victim of a kernel bug in the iso9660 filesystem.
Hardlinks are not correctly copied as hardlinks, so they are split into
individual files and therefore require more space on the destination
filesystem. If you replace all files that are >= 1 Byte and identical by
content to each other, with hardlinks, the allocated space should shrink
accordingly.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper

You do this on whatever writeable hard disk filesystem you are mastering from (ext2/3) correct? Otherwise it just requires the ISO9660 bug to be fixed. The bug is in the kernel and not mkisofs?

Austin

PS - thanks, this has been killing me for months.

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