remaking iso9660 filesystem without any change BLOWS UP size

[linuxophilicsb]

Environment details:

ZS (ZeroShell-1.0.beta16-CompactFlash-IDE-USB-SATA-1GB.img) image

is loaded (without booting it) in an extra hard disk device ( sdb)

The OS in which the procedure was carried out : Xubuntu 12.04

What I did:

1. Mounted iso filesystem of zs(the 2nd partition) in /mnt/sdb2

mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2

2. Made a new iso image using the files that were in the mounted isofs

cd  /mnt/sdb2

mkisofs -U -r -hide-rr-moved -o /var/tmp/zs_par2.iso ./

Findings:

“ls -lh” of the original isoimage(copied using “dd if=/dev/sdb2 of=zspar2_orig.iso“) gives size as 168MB whereas the new image created has a size of 362M without the slightest change.

It’s OK if the sizes aren’t the exact same, but the 2nd image is larger than twice the

size of the 1st image. I guess I’m missing something .

Please help me by pointing out what I’ve missed. Thanks.

[dvanzan]

I think it’s because the orignial iso9660 partition is compressed

[linuxophilicsb]

Yeah, it worked.

Thanks a lot.

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