[wellylug] spliting iso

[Cliff Pratt]

E.Chalaron wrote:
> Thanks for the replies, in fact my request was incomplete...
> here is the situation, 
> 
> I have 4 directories of  thousands (~ 3700) ppm files of 3.5 Mb each (super 8 
> mm movie frames). I already access the content but I need to backup them. So 
> far no other option than DVD as backups.
> 
> At second thought splitted tars of 4.4 Gb each could make my day.
> I know there is the -M option for several volumes in tar, still I have not 
> found the command to say "split at 4.4 Gb"
> Then after I will mkisofs them...
> 
> So anybody with the tar thing volume/limitation ? I tried -L but it is asking 
> to insert a tape ?????????
> 
The split command will split a file (eg a tar file) piped to 
it, but there is a file system limit of about 2.5GB, which 
applies in most cases.

Cheers.

Cliff