On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:35:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 05:10, martin f krafft wrote:
> > Scenario: 100 Files between 100-200Mb.
> > Desired Result: These burned to CD in any order, so that to minimise
> > the number of CDRs
> >
> > Question: is there a tool to automate this?
>
> When I've had very similar problems, I've created a 2 column file
> with filenames and sizes, and import it into a spreadsheet.
>
> Sort it by size descending, and start playing "best fit". With
> Cut-and-paste and sum(), it really goes pretty quickly.
I do the same with "du | sort -n" and a couple of directories.
But if someone knows a tool, I'd appreciate it!
(Note that I'd be willing to accept a non-optimal solution as long as
it isn't too far off. Note that we would normally move to DVDs if the
number of CDs becomes too large. So the number of disks is usually not
very large.)
Roger.
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