Split large file and transfer to windows external drive

Assagay52 · 05-17-2011, 01:31 AM

How does one split a large linux file and transfer to windows external drive ?

corp769 · 05-17-2011, 01:39 AM

Hello,

You can use the split command. Type "man split" for general information about it. An example would be like so:

Code:

split -b M 2 largefile.tar.gz

Cheers,

Josh

EricTRA · 05-17-2011, 01:42 AM

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

You can use the split command to split a large file in smaller files. On a Linux machine you can join them quite easily on the command line but I'm not sure how to do that on Windows. You could however use a utility like rar to create the split files and use WinRAR on Windows. Have a look at this page for the Linux way. Look at the man page for rar to find out how to do it with rar, I believe it's something like this:

Code:

rar a -v2048k largefile ouputfile

which should create files of 2Mb. Have fun with Linux.

Kind regards,

Eric