Re: New tool for packing files into an ISO image

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:50:46 -0800
> BitBucket wrote:
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> > Tom:
> >
> > I'm a bit behind the curve (as a matter of policy, mostly).  What would be
> > an 'old' tool for packing files into an ISO image that you were improving
> > upon?  Looking for Windows GUI-based tools here, to pack offloads onto DVDs.
> >      
> As far as I know, there is no old tool for doing this. This one is
> new because I just wrote it, not because it replicates the function
> of some old tool (at least I couldn't find any existing tool
> or I probably wouldn't have written this one :-).
>
>
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There is a useful tool for determining what will fit on a media size, 
and it has been around. since the mid 1990s, called breaker. It takes as 
input a list of items and sizes, such as are creates by
  ls -s | sort -n
    or
  du -S | sort -n
and you provide the size of the media, optional rounding up in size of 
each item, optional fixed overhead per item (tar/cpio headers), and have 
options to generate a file list inone-file-per-media format and 
optionally use a format suitable for the "graftpoints" option in cdrecord.

It's still on public.tmr.com as source, I started it before CD burners 
were common and I was backing up a massice 600MB drive to 60MB takes. 
The problem hasn't changed, the numbers have just gotten bigger. :-(

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Bill Davidsen<davidsen@tmr.com>
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