Dave:

> Is there a way to make changes to an iso filesystem when it is mounted
> in loopback mode?  When I try to cp a file into the file system, I get:

> dp:/home/davep# cp seat.lst /iso/
> cp: cannot create regular file `/iso/seat.lst': Read-only file system

> I suppose I could cp the files to a new location and then rebuild the
> iso, but I hope there might be an easier way?

Most versions of the Linux ISO9660 filesystem driver support read-write.
Did you specify "-o rw" in your mount options?  Here is what I would do
to get a huge ISO image file mounted read-write:

mount -t iso9660 -o loop,rw /tmp/huge.iso /iso

Hope this helps..

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