Live Chat!

Compress to multiple volume RAR

* * * * * 2 votos

February 25th, 2007 toydi Posted in Archive, rar | Hits: 14169 |

To compress a big video file, movie.avi and split it into multiple files, each size up to 12MB,

rar a -m5 -v12m myarchive movie.avi

A list of files (myarchive.part1.rar, myarchive.part2.rar, ..) will be created in current directory.

You may change the compression quality, -m5 is the best and the slowest, while -m0 do no compression at all (-m3 is default).

If you prefer the old file naming style (myarchive.rar, myarchive.r00, myarchive.r01, ..), add one extra switch -vn before the archive name.

To uncompress the files (myarchive.part1.rar, myarchive.part2.rar, ..),

rar e myarchive.part1.rar
Related Posts
Overview: Archive tools for linux
There are various archive file format exist, such as .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2, .gz, .bz2, .zip, .rar, .7z. The common que...

download multiple files from a site using for loop like c in bash
Batch download using wget seems to be not working anymore, a lots of web site used to protect the particular directory f...

open multiple files in tabs, vim 7 can do that.
Remember last time when I open multiple files using vim, it will be loaded and store at the back buffer, in order to bri...

3 Responses to “Compress to multiple volume RAR”

  1. Overview: Archive tools for linux » Linux by Examples Says:
    April 7th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    [...] Wanna split rar into multiple instances? check out Compress to multiple volume rar. [...]

  2. Ryan Neufeld Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 2:54 am

    This helped me out of a bind. Thanks a ton!

  3. Zergus Says:
    August 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Thanks a lot. That was exactly what I was looking for.

Leave a Reply