Solved - DVD and CDrom Optimal Filling

Posted by JD 01/24/2009 at 10:08

Over the years, I’ve burned a few backup optical media. As always, trying to get the “best fit” between the available files and media size is desired. There are programs that help fit the most files on a disk.

A list:

  • FillCD
  • gaffitter
  • SizeMe
  • Burn To The Brim

Most are Windows. An author suggested running his under Wine on Ubuntu. Er, not my preferred way. gaffitter will be tried first. I think I’ve used SizeMe before and it was impressive at optimal directory suggestions, but a “Move it” button would have been nice.

Updates as I try them out.

gaffitter rocks!

Here’s an alias to make this easy to use:

alias fitdvd='gaffitter -t 4482 -m --bs 2048'

or
alias fitdvd='gaffitter -t 4482m '
if you’re running a newer gaffitter like Ubuntu 10.04 includes.

will look at the input directories and output optimized file/folder lists to fit a DVD 4.7G. Fantastic. I take that output, shove it into a file and create a ‘mv’ script.

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