On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Joey L wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > > On Sunday 04 January 2009, "Joey L" <mjh2...@gmail.com> wrote about 'Re: > > does debian have other utilities similar to multicd ??': > > >file by file copy to some media > > >no compression > > >no "archive" > > >readable with other OS > > >if the directories specified are greater then the media max size (i.e. > > > 4gig DVD-R) the program or script will prompt you for the next media. > > > > Not possible. At least not without installing some software on the "other > > OS". > > > > Since you've specified no archive, the filesystem must be responsible for > > determining what disk a particular file/directory is on and asking for you > > to be prompted. > > > > DVDs are either iso9660 (rare, old) or UDF (normally). Neither of these > > filesystems has this feature. I actually don't know any filesystem that > > has this feature. If there is, you'd need to make sure that all the OSes > > you have can read (at least) that filesystem, and use it on the DVDs. > > There are unfortunately, too much truly cross-OS filesystems. Installing > > them is generally a good bit harder than installing a program, also. > > > > Instead of having it implemented at the filesytem level, there might be a > > program which would use a normal iso9660 or UDF filesystem, and then store > > data about the other volumes in special files. You'd have to use that > > program from doing the copy (not normal burning software) and you'd have > > to use that program for reading, if you wanted the information stored > > across multiple volumes to all be visible. In "standard" file managers, > > you'd just see only the files stored wholely on that volume. > > > > Of course, if you are having to use s special program to read and write > > data to the volumes, you might as well just use an existing proper > > archiver, just look for one that supports all the OSes you use. > > -- > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > > > > Well thanks for the reply - I think i narrowed it down. > 1). Multicd - does the job - the issue there is that we need to do it on > iso9660 filesystem and NOT the ext2 filesystem that come by default. > > Does anyone know how to change that ??? > > 2). Mondoarchive - does the job - the issue is that though it saves it on an > iso9660 filesystem, the archieve files are not readable by windows based > machines because it uses bz2 instead of zipfiles. Does anyone know how to > change Mondoarchive to zip file format storage...does it do that ?
7zip, winrar and many other read it just fine. .gz is not supported natively there as well. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
