Dear Folks, On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:19:16AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > I would particularly like to have my music uncompressed, untarred so I > > can just put the dvd into a machine and play them. > > This would require each disk to have an in itself complete iso fs with a > subset of the files. Each disk may be slightly underfull. > > > > http://www.serice.net/shunt/ > > Brilliant piece of software by the looks of it. Thanks for the URL! > Check whether it creates disks with a complete filesystem, or whether it > creates one huge filesystem with a piece of the filesystem on each disk. > In the latter case individual disks wouldn't be accessible. Yes, I will try it out later for putting tarballs onto DVD. I don't see how I can use it to put individual files, unless I can somehow hook things together with xargs. It looks like a wonderful idea that will have many other applications besides creating backups. > Alternatively, you could hack up some script which reads through your > music directory, sizing up as many files as fit on one disk, burn that > disk, and then proceed with the next file in the directory. > > In either case you have no control over which file goes on which disk, > i.e. it'll be somehwat random. Won't it be possible for mkisofs to keep the directories in order, if my (yet to be written) Perl program provides the paths in a particular order? I am currently thinking of writing a program that calls growisofs once for each diskful, after generating a list of paths, the contents of which can fit into one DVD. And yes, as I've just discovered, using --graft-points seems to be required here. -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Proud member of the Dept. of Information & Communications Technology, Home of Visual Paradigm: Jolt Productivity Award winner, programmed by our own graduates! Tel: (852) 2436 8576 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
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