Create multi volume archive on a Mac
You can split any file with the split command:
split -b 2048m bigfile.tgz bigfile.tgz.
And you will get:
bigfile.tgz.aa
bigfile.tgz.ab
...
To combine them again:
cat bigfile.tgz.* > bigfile.tgz
It can also be used on Windows with copy /B
Of course, this is not really a multi-part archive, just cutting any file to pieces. Multi-part archives are usually aware that they are part nb 5 is a series, include CRC verification for each file etc. But that is specific to the archive format that you want to use.
Use programs like
- Keka (archiver for Mac OS X)
- WinZip Mac
- built-in Archiver in OS X plus Split & Concat / hjsplit for Windows, Linux, Macs.
To split with the internal zip command on OS X, type this in a terminal:
zip -s 1g BigFile6GB.zip BigFile6GB.iso
Where 1g
= split files in 1GB of maximum size.
The result will be 6 files of 1GB each.
Read man zip on terminal to see others options of split size with the internal zip command.