-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-05-21 at 09:51 +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
well, after some search, I see this is a PmWiki charset problem (utf8, probably, I will see this on the appropriate list).
AH.
But it stays for us the backup problem., revisited
"how to backup files with badly named files"
ext2/3 seems to handle this properly. Is there anyway to write ext2 to cd/dvd simply?
Yes, it is quite simple, once you set it up. Procedure: 1) create an empty file of the exact size: dd if=/dev/zero of=image_file bs=1MB count=4700 2) associate a loop device to it. Mmmm... now I have a little doubt, because I usually do this for encrypted filesystems using losetup. It could be: losetup /dev/loop2 image_file 3) Make a filesystem on it mkfs.ext3 [options] /dev/loop2 (options: create label, etc. I need to RTFM) 4) mount it, test, umount. fsck it. remove: "losetup -d /dev/loop2" 5) Create fstab entry for it. /path/image_file /mnt/my_ext_dvd_loop ext3 default,loop,user,users 0 0 6) test that "mount /mnt/my_ext_dvd_loop" works. Now, once you have created it, the procedure for backup is: 1) mount the image 2) Copy every thing needed to it (use mc, konqueror, whatever) 3) umount the image 4) burn the image file via k3b 5) repeat the procedure as many times as needed: simply delete the old files and copy new ones. done. The only thing to be careful about is to be sure to umount the image before burning it: k3b will not warn that it is mounted. What it will do is ask if you are sure you want to burn it because it is not an iso image. And unless you are short on disk space and delete the 4 gigabyte disk image, you don't have to repeat the creation steps: the image can be reused thousands of times. Ah! You probably need an entry like this in fstab: /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 to mount the resulting dvds - I don't know if the automounted mechanism in kde/gnome will mount them automatically. Possibly, there is a refinement to this procedure: the image size (bs=1MB * 4700) could be adjusted to an exact multiple of the DVD physical sector size. I'm unsure of the exact size. 2KiB? Another refinement: place the image in a HD that is not on the same cable as the burner.
is the udf file system usable in this respect? how?
I don't know. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIM/4xtTMYHG2NR9URAsxmAJ9zCxk6lQZmSnxgoVjZoSVhOusaQgCfeWhO +WjkqA2K2448RBIryvBrJ1k= =rxK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org