Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:36:56 +0100 (CET) From: "Ganael LAPLANCHE" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Introducing fpart - a file partitioning tool Message-ID: <20120106102656.M75753@martymac.org>
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Hi everyone, Have you ever wondered how you could split a file tree into parts of the same size, or into parts with a limited size or file number ? I have developed a small BSD-licensed tool called fpart that can do that for you (see http://contribs.martymac.org and https://sourceforge.net/projects/fpart). This small C program will crawl a given set of file or directory paths, organize them and print resulting partitions. This can be useful to e.g. launch several rsync(1) in parallel or store files on media of limited size. Here are some examples : 1) Produce 3 partitions, with (approximatively) the same size and number of files : $ fpart -n 3 -o var-parts /var 2) Produce partitions of 4.4 GB, containing music files ready to be burnt to a DVD : $ fpart -s 4724464025 -o music-parts /path/to/my/music 3) Produce partitions containing 10000 files each by examining /usr and /home : $ find /usr ! -type d | ./fpart -f 10000 -i - /home | grep '^0:' The tool is already available in ports (sysutils/fpart) but has also successfully been used on GNU/Linux. Enjoy ! Best regards, PS : comment and patches are, of course, welcome :) -- Ganael LAPLANCHE <ganael.laplanche@martymac.org> http://www.martymac.org | http://contribs.martymac.org FreeBSD: martymac <martymac@FreeBSD.org>, http://www.FreeBSD.org
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