$ tar cf archive.tar -L N directory_to_tar/
N is the archive length in Kbytes. tar writes the first archive file, then prompts you to change volume. You rename archive.tar to archive1.tar and continue.
I agree that you cannot compress at the same time as you split with tar.
raffaele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to create a multivolume tar files with spesific size?
For example I want to tar the whole hda into many 650MB's files for
then burned into CDs.
I notice there's the -M switch, but I can't find the option to specify
the size.
Thanks.
- -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org
No, you can't do this. Multivolume switches in Tar are for multiple *physical" volumes, not multiple volumes on disk. For this you should be using Rar for linux. Download the rpm for your version of MDK from Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net. Rar will allow you to create multiple volumes of specific sizes (whatever size you want) AND also allows you to attach recovery data so that you can recover a damaged volume if one of them gets damaged after you burn everything to cd. Or if something happens to your drive and one or two volumes get whacked. Tar can't do this, and it also cannot compress it's own archives without help from the zip command. Rar does, and it's compression is better than either zip or bzip2. It also does better than just about any other compressor on multimedia files, like sound or video.
LX
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