From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OMEzE-0003Xq-Kh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:42:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A711E07C0; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0193BE07C0 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:41:40 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0L3Q0042EILFSG20@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:41:39 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,389,1272837600"; d="scan'208";a="60678139" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:41:39 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o596fdYq019165 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:41:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 64AFC1027; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:41:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-"Container" ? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <20100608172657.GA5310@solfire> Message-id: References: <20100608172657.GA5310@solfire> X-Archives-Salt: 1b375c19-966b-4a27-bd2e-da918d25d9f8 X-Archives-Hash: 4f0c57e111ac534a0217aa3a4ea56115 On 8 Jun, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using k3b to burn dvds/cds. > As most programs of this kind, k3b can /copy/ but not > /move/ data to a DVD. > Therefore, when trying to find tose files, which exactly > sum up to the size of a DVD (by the way: I know DVD- > sizes from a little below 4.3 GB to over 4.7GB...what is > the truth?) I end up with a selected file here and another > one there. After the DVD is finished it is --hrmm-- not > efficient to find those in the related directories to > remove them after a successful copy. > Now I am looking of something like a "virtual DVD" to > which I can /move/ and move back files. The "DVD" > should report "no space left on device" exactly at > the same point when a "real DVD" is filled. > > I thought of one extra partition of the same size a DVD > but since the filesystems will occupy different amount > of space... > > On the other hand: A iso-image-file on the harddisk would > be nice, but that filesystem isn't made for moving files > back and forth... > > Any ideas to solve this??? Different idea: have a look at app-cdr/gaffitter It approximates the so-called knapsack problem of optimal packing. You can then use this information to burn and afterwards delete the files. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany