Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4121 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 16 2007 14:51, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>A slightly different question.
>
>Yesterday I had 9GBs of small files (about 115,000 files in one dir)
>to burn to DVD.  Too big to fit on a single Dual Layer DVD by a few
>hundred GB, and almost too big to fit on 2 single layer DVDs.
>
>Is there a tool that would have allowed me to point at the entire 9GB
>directory and said make2  DVDs and fill the first one up, then put the
>rest on the next?  I broke my single directory in half manually and
>had to ensure that the files fit.  Took me a while to figure out the
>right break point.

Yes, it is very easy actually. In Midnight Commander, change to the 
desired directory, and sort it by size, so that the biggest file is at 
first. Then use the <Insert> key to mark as many files until you hit 
the, say, 4700 MB barrier. Let's say you have selected 4600 MB worth of 
files, and the next file would cause it to go to 4750 MB. Instead of 
marking this 150 MB file, you select *the next best file(s)* so that you 
remain below the 4700 MB. When done, you move the files to another 
directory.

Repeat the operation with the files that remain in SOURCE until there 
are no more files in SOURCE.
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