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I wish to know if there are any known algorithms for dispensing a list of files for a specified maximum directory size (disc size for example), while attempting to keep output directories size close to each other.

asked Oct 4, 2014 at 14:37

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This is the classic bin-packing problem.

It is classic because it can be applied to so many tasks that we'd like to optimize but it is computationally NP-hard.

answered Oct 4, 2014 at 14:56

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