[CLUE-Talk] file-splitting

[David Willson]

Resolved.  I installed the MKS Toolkit Demo, and used their version of
'split'.  It worked perfectly, giving me 41 half-Gb files, and one
slightly smaller.  I am now using ARJ32 to create CD-sized compressed
volumes, which will contain all the parts.

There would have been problems with moving the drive directly to the
Linux, in that the partition is formatted with NTFS5, which has been
very troublesome in Linux, in my limited experience.  FTP'ing, or
otherwise copying it to a Linux native system was simply not an option;
I don't have that much free space (40Gb for file and parts!) on any of
my Linux systems.

On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 16:11, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 15:46, David Willson wrote:
> > Argh!
> > 
> > OK, I just tried 'split' over an smbmount of the folder containing the
> > piggy file, and I got the same darned thing.  The first volume is the
> > half-Gig that I requested, the second is 325.7 Mb, and my 'split' job
> > quietly went to a done state, as if it had finished the job I asked
> > for...  Any further ideas?
> 
> 
> Before you were using tar on Win2k and now split over an smb-shared
> device...  and you expect different results?  As I said earlier, your
> problem in all likelihood has nothing to do with either tar or split. 
> Its the file system (part of the OS) not allowing you to read beyound
> the 1Gig mark.  So using an SMB share means you are still accessing the
> file through Win2k and still have the (likely) FS problem.
> 
> Again, why don't you quit fooling around and either:
> 
>   - ftp/scp/whatever the file to a Linux/Unix box,  or
> 
>   - physically move the drive to a Linux/Unix box,  or
> 
>   - use a floppy or CD-based distro (eg. the linuxcare "bootable 
>     business card" or the "Tom's root boot" distros) to run Linux 
>     on *that* box
> 
> good luck,
> Ed
> 
> 
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