rar and file size limit
hello,
i want to compress a folder with is about 900Mb into rar but i want to split the rar files into parts of 100Mb each, how could i do this? i tried ark, file-roller and rar but couldn't find the way to do that am using debian etch |
Code:
rar a -r -v100000k name_of_archive directory_name |
Hi,
I'm trying to find the same thing but to segment a 14G .rar file into DVDs. How do you calculate the exact -v for it? As far as i know, to fit them to CDs you need to use -v614400k (102400k * 6), which gives you exactly 700MB (approx 732Mb). How much should it be for a standard 4.4G DVD ? -v4710400k ? (102400*46) thanks |
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That's good to know, thanks ErV,
Indeed the version i now have is 3.80. I tried -v4.4g and so far it looks like it's working. I just hope the size is exact. I'll confirm once it's done. |
Hi,
Ok, so if i use -v4.4G, i end up with -rw-r--r-- 1 xushi xushi 3.8G Dec 17 16:44 xxx.part1.rar which is -rw-r--r-- 1 xushi xushi 4000000000 Dec 17 16:44 xxx.part1.rar So i decided to give -v4.4g a try instead, i got -rw-r--r-- 1 xushi xushi 4.0G Dec 18 10:22 xxx.part1.rar which is -rw-r--r-- 1 xushi xushi 4294967296 Dec 18 10:22 xxx.part1.rar Is that still too small to fill a DVD? In case anyone asks, here is the full command to have zero compression (-m0, because i already compressed with bzip2), good redundancy (-rr), and segmentation (-v) rar a -r -m0 -rr[524288] -v4.4G ciscobackups/Backup.rar my_big_file |
There's another possibility too, but it comes with a drawback: you need to create the compressed file (as a single file) first, before splitting. Here's the beginning of the man-page of split:
Code:
SPLIT(1) User Commands SPLIT(1) Code:
cat file1 file2 file3 ... fileN > bigfile EDIT: don't get confused by the beginning of the man page (read it completely, please): the size can be determined not only by lines, but by bytes for example, and numeric suffixes can be used instead of alphabetic. |
Hi B0uncer,
Yea i already know about using cat, and it looks much easier too, but my problem is that The files will be extracted on Windows by amatures, hence the need to use rar. Winrar doesn't take any effort to extract (just right click + extract). I just checked with a burner and it said it had 120MB free space left, so maybe i should have put -v1.43 instead. Otherwise it looks to be close enough as it is! |
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