Public bug reported:
Currently, one uses -r to specify the % of the original to create; eg
par2create -r5 foo.mpg
for 5% redundancy. But overhead and imprecise calculating of what
exactly percent one wants can mean that one goes overboard and makes too
much redundancy to fit on a CD/DVD/backup medium or makes too little
(frequently I waste a good 100MB on DVDs because I need to leave a fudge
factor; 100MB could've corrected a lot of errors).
Better would be if one could specify how many megabytes or kilobytes to
make, so if one has 4 gigs of data to protect, one could do something
like
par2create -r200MB *
and wind up with the exact 4.2 gigs and no wasted space.
** Affects: par2cmdline (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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par2create ought to accept absolute amount of redundancy to create, as well as
percentage
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535309
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