Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On 1/10/20 2:33 AM, Frank Cox wrote: Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from somewhere called FILL. ... Before I re-invent the wheel here, does someone already have a way to do this with Linux so you can write a series of flash drives and fill them with the contents of a sp

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 10 Jan 2020, Chris Adams wrote: If it helps your search, what you are looking for is an application of the knapsack algorithm. Actually bin packing. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Frank Cox said: > FILL would take the name of a directory and then start writing files from > that directory onto a series of floppy disks in such a way that each disk was > made as full as possible, but without modifying the files that it was writing. I remember using a progr

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Valeri Galtsev
> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Frank Cox wrote: > > Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from somewhere called > FILL. > > FILL would take the name of a directory and then start writing files from > that directory onto a series of floppy disks in such a way that each disk

Re: [CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-10 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 01:33:23AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > > Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from > somewhere called FILL. > > FILL would take the name of a directory and then start writing files > from that directory onto a series of floppy disks in such a way that > ea

[CentOS] copying files to fill flash drives

2020-01-09 Thread Frank Cox
Back in the days of DOS I had a program that I obtained from somewhere called FILL. FILL would take the name of a directory and then start writing files from that directory onto a series of floppy disks in such a way that each disk was made as full as possible, but without modifying the files t