How to burn a ext3 file system on a cd?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:32:35PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=<ext3 img> bs=1k count=62M
> 
> 1k*62M would be much more than 620M.
dd if=/dev/zero of=ext2.img bs=1M count=620

Is there any real need for an ext3 filesystem opposed to an ext2?
Ext2 does support ACLs, doesn't it?

> > # mke2fs -F -m 0 <ext3 img>
I recommend also the option -b 2048 (CDs use 2048 bytes sectors).

> > # cdrecord [blank=fast] dev=0,0,0 speed=<speed> -v <ext3 img>
Also, add a -pad option, for some readers.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha