If you need to compress a large archive file and upload them to a filesharing site which had size limitation, you must split them first into some parts. You need rar application to do this, so install it using :
{code}apt-get install rar{/code}
After complete then run this command using terminal or konsole to compress :
{code}rar a -v200M myarchive-pack /home/jfdesign/archive{/code}
Means :
- a : add files to the archive
- -v200M : split into 200Mb each archive part file
- myarchive-pack : name of the output archive file
- /home/jfdesign/archive : the folder name you want to add to archive
You will get the myarchive-pack.part01.rar, myarchive-pack.part02.rar and so on with 200Mb size of each part.
To uncompress / extracting the splitted archive :
{code}rar x myarchive-pack.part01.rar{/code}
