Dennis Tuchler wrote:
Is there a way to split a tar or gzipped tar file into several files, to be rejoined later on another hard drive? For example, given file.tgz which is 10 MB in size, is there a way I could divide it into 10 files, each of which fits on a 1.44 MB diskette (called file-1 ...file-10), to be rejoined later into the original 10 MB file?
I think # tar -L1440 -cvf /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0 archive works. You can't compress at the same time, but there's no reason why archive can't itself be a tar.gz or tar.bz2 file. This is raw writing to the floppy; so you get all 1440 Kb but the only way to recover is to use # tar -L1440 -xvf /dev/fd0 and make sure you put the disks back in the right order. JDL -- Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter libertatem solummodo quam Nemo bonus nisi simul cum vita amittit.