mkisofs,cd9660 and hard links

[Vince]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> i did copy of small server (taking about 3GB space) to DVD with 
> growisofs -R and using --exclude to not copy /dev etc..
>
> worked fine.
>
> and recovered fine, but taking much more space, because all hardlinks 
> are now separate files.
>
> it looks like cd9660 filesystem doesn't "see" hardlinked files as 
> hardlinked, but as separate ones.
>
> is there any program to fix it like comparing all very similar files 
> on disk and hardlinking them?
Not that i'm aware of but someone else may. Maybe next time you could 
store the files on the DVD in a tar file which keeps hardlink information.

Vince


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