On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:17:47 +0100 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/software/isopack/isopack.html > > BitBucket wrote: > > > 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. > > Meanwhile 12 years old is my scdbackup.
Didn't come across that in my googling. I'll be sure to add a pointer to it in my references. > This leaves me with the question, how the user learns about those > groups which did not make it yet and would be candidates for the > next ISO image in the next medium. Sounds like a candidate for a new option to output a file containing the original input path-list with the packed files removed and only the unpacked files left as a starting point for the next packing. The way I was planning to use it was just to get some files off my disk and onto backup, so I tend to write the files that fit, then (after verifying the backup) remove the ones on the hard disk that made it onto the media (which I can tell by doing an ls on the mounted media :-). By the time I've filled up my disk again, I have a new starting point anyway. But if someone wanted to backup several disks worth at once, such an option could definitely be handy. > Another question i have, is how you predict the exact size of an > ISO 9660 image with Rock Ridge. It is not impossible but depends > on the internals of the ISO 9660 generator program. > So in principle one can only trust the -print-size result with the > whole tree of files which would be candidates for the image. I do indeed run mkisofs to get what it claims the exact size will be when I have a new candidate for best packing during the search. So I'm counting on -print-size to be the accurate number. > The sizes on the web page look ok. > Maybe you could add some re-usable ones: > 2295104 12 cm DVD+RW > 2297888 12 cm DVD-RW formatted (profile 0x13) > 2298496 12 cm DVD-RW not formatted (profile 0x14) > 11826176 12 cm BD-RE single layer, default format > 12219392 12 cm BD-RE single layer, formatted to 0 spare blocks I was coming at this from the point of view of backing up files and keeping them stashed somewhere, so I didn't think it likely anyone would be using rewritable media, but I don't guess it would hurt anything to add them to the list anyway. Thanks for the info and comments! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111209090018.4b1c9a2d@zooty
