Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 17:36:56 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: arrange files and directories in CD-sized bins? Message-ID: <20060510203656.GK44733@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Hi! I'm trying to help a FreeBSD user with a slow (dialup) link by providing him with CDs containing distfiles. My /usr/ports/distfiles directory holds 3.0Gb of data, and although I can generate a tarball and split it in multiples of 650MB or 700MB (the CD capacity) using split(1), I would much rather like to generate ~ 5 ISO images each containing the files. This way it'll be much easier for him to access it. Now, I can go on and manually arrange the distfiles so as to minimize the number of CDs needed ... but I thought that perhaps this could be automated in some way? Anyone know of a tool that given a list of files and directories with their sizes arranges them in lists of MAX XXX bytes? Fernan
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