Re: grub-mkrescue and hard links

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:22:57PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> grub-mkrescue is trying to execute cp -dpRl (l for link). If the origin
> and destination directories are in different file systems this fails.

One of the purposes of grub-mkrescue is to generate images that are bootable
using GRUB.  These images might be complete CDs or DVDs, making a complete
copy very undesireable.

I think I'd rather remove the copiing stage altogether and operate on the
original directory (this is not so strange, e.g. -boot-info-table in
mkisofs also modifies original data and is widely used).

-- 
Robert Millan

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