Re: bzip2split
Eric Krieger <grammatoncleric-GeWIH/[email protected]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:38:33 -0700
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can you extract the bzip2 file in question and recreate it using.... tar -cvpj 'directory/name'/ | split -d -b 4000m - /name/of/archive.tar.bz2 Eric On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 13:23 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes: > > % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons: > > % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header > > % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 "block", rendering the > first/last blocks of each file unreadable. > _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug