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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 01-08-03 19:52
I found out today that the mkisofs step is only necessary if you want to mount the CD contents as a file system.
Here's what I accidentally did today:
cdrecord -eject speed=12 dev=0,5,0 ~dan/fp2003.06_fbsd_fppho_fs_pho_phpads_.tgz
Note that I supplied a compressed tarball to cdrecord, not an ISO as I usually do.
I mentioned this (in a Linux channel on IRC), and was promptly told:
that's ok, you can access it with tar ...
So I can! Witness:
# tar tzf /dev/cd0a
freshports_phorum.2003.06.26.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.06.27.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.06.28.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.06.29.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.06.30.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.01.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.02.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.03.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.04.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.05.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.06.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.07.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.08.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.09.sql
freshports_phorum.2003.07.10.sql
^C
Woo hoo! I'll just keep that CD and mark it accordingly.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 01-08-03 22:02
More info: I got these types of errors:
# tar tzf /dev/cd0a
tar (child): /dev/cd0a: Cannot read: Input/output error
tar (child): At beginning of tape, quitting now
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
So I tried:
$ sudo cat /dev/acd0a > raw.tgz
cat: /dev/acd0a: Input/output error
[after a long delay]
Next was:
$ sudo cat /dev/acd0c | tar tvzf -
[lots of output]
-rw-r--r-- ftpbackup/ftpbackup 34249 Jul 29 03:17 2003 freshsource_phorum.2003.07.29.sql
cat: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error
-rw-r--r-- ftpbackup/ftpbackup 34249 Jul 30 03:17 2003 freshsource_phorum.2003.07.30.sql
-rw-r--r-- ftpbackup/ftpbackup 34249 Jul 31 03:17 2003 freshsource_phorum.2003.07.31.sql
-rw-r--r-- ftpbackup/ftpbackup 34249 Aug 1 03:17 2003 freshsource_phorum.2003.08.01.sql
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Next tried was:
$ sudo cat /dev/acd0c > raw.tgz
cat: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error
At this point, I suspected the original tarball, but that was fine:
$ tar tvzf ~dan/fp2003.06_fbsd_fppho_fs_pho_phpads_.tgz
[no errors]
And then:
$ sudo dd if=/dev/acd0c bs=2k of=raw.tgz
dd: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error
288985+0 records in
288985+0 records out
591841280 bytes transferred in 965.288864 secs (613123 bytes/sec)
While all the above was going on, I was creating an ISO and burning new CDs...
My advice: ignore what I said. This whole thread is now merely a curiousity.
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Author: Dan Langille
Date: 02-08-03 00:15
Oh, that tarball I got from the dd? I did this:
$ tar xvfz raw.tgz
I got:
... [snipped]
freshsource_phorum.2003.07.30.sql
freshsource_phorum.2003.07.31.sql
freshsource_phorum.2003.08.01.sql
gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
So that looks ok, just a bit of extra data is rounding up to the block size: 591841280 is 591839307 rounded up to 2k
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