Dear Folks, On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:12:10AM -0400, Rob Bogus wrote: > 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. > > > >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. > I have a generalized perl script which reads a file in size-name format, > and generates output file(s) of items which will fit on a single media. > The size of a media and the per-item overhead are command line > parameters. This isn't limited to files, I use "du -S" to generate > backups with all of a single directory on a single media. It also tries > to equalize the content on each media, so you don't get a bunch of full > media ending with one having virtually nothing. That's just my > preference, it could be optional (and may be, I don't have the code in > front of me). > > I originally wrote it in awk a few decades ago when I run a UNIX BBS and > backed up my 20MB hard drive to 400k floppies. World changed, problems > unchanged, backup media is still too small. Great! My next question is, "where can I get it?" By the way, I have just written a Perl program designed to make pathlists for use with --graft-points. It is not ready for prime time yet; I am still writing it, but my effort so far is at http://ictlab.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/ftp/tarball/make-path-lists.pl and is licensed GPL. I will inform the list when I have tested it more thoroughly (i.e., after sucessfully backing up and verifying 100MB or so). > >In either case you have no control over which file goes on which disk, > >i.e. it'll be somehwat random. > > > > > > Yes, that's a problem. And the processing time needed to get a really > perfect packing can be great if the data just fit on N media (or just > don't quite fit). Yes: I will write a question about that to the list now. -- 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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