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How do I get K3b to split a volumes across several media? For example if I give it a folder that has 6 GB (not one file of 6 GB), it should create several discs of 4.4 GB automatically, instead of me doing it manually?

If K3B can't do it, is there any software that can?

njsg
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    Almost the same question: http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/10158/4319 ; however, it doesn't mention k3b. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Mar 28 '11 at 19:19
  • This question could probably be made broader by asking how to split an ISO9660 image across several limited-size images. This is more useful and easier to deal with rather than "how to make this specific incarnation of a CD/DVD authoring frontend do the splitting". – njsg Jan 27 '13 at 18:00

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I would say that there is no software for this task since no software can compute the semantics of the files on your CD-image. How should K3B know which files have to be kept together?

If the order of the files is not important - I would use tar and split for the task - like I did when floppies were still in use...

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  • Yup. That's the way the OP could go with Ivan's pointer, http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/10158/4319. The interesting thing is that, after doing some research, I see `mkisofs` does have options for volumes, but does not support volumes with more than one disk... Believing in the manpage, this would be *the* desired feature. Sadly, as many tools just rely on `mkisofs`, I'd guess it's not likely that some other burning tool does actually offer this feature. – njsg Jan 27 '13 at 18:14