[Dvdrtools-users] Using udf fs for backups

[Volker Kuhlmann]

The Linux isofs doesn't handle hardlinks, so I thought I'd try udf, but
piled up a few questions. The first being - how do I create the
filesystem?

dd </dev/zero >file
losetup
mkudffs
losetup -d
mount -oloop
<cp ...>
umount

can't be the best way to go, can it? It does seem to work though. Is
there a way to shrink/expand the filesystem? Being 50k short after 3.5G
could be a little annoying.

Is there a functional program like mkisofs which can create the
filesystem image to be burnt? There is mkisofs -udf but it doesn't work:

ls -l
dr-xr-xr-x    4 4294967295 4294967295     1100 Aug 16  2001 dir

No ownerships, no permissions, and the uid/gid seem to be 2^32-1. No
hardlinks either.

cdrtools 2.0, kernel 2.4.20 (SuSE 8.2)

Is there a better way? Is it still all beta??

Thanks much,

Volker

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