OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

[Roland Smith]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST)
> Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 
> > By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap.  ;-)
> > 
> > Best regards
> >    Oliver
> > 
> What is Krap to one can be Komfort to another. ;-)
> 
> I assist a photographer fiend by maintaining her computers, network and
> doing backups. Being a photographer in Hawaii means she shoots about
> 200 weddings a year. 
> 
> A typical month will run from 80GB to over 200GB depending upon the
> time of year and other factors. After about 3 months I will archive the
> projects to DVD. I make two copies of each DVD so that they can be kept
> in different locations. Some weddings and other projects will be 20GB
> or more. Trying to divide these projects over the fewest number of
> DVDs is quite easy with K3B because I can add or subtract individual
> files as needed to fill the DVD to the maximum.
> 
> If someone knows an easy way to do this on the command line I would be
> more than willing to try it.

dirsplit (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirsplit/) will do the trick nicely.

Roland
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