[OS X] File Splitting

[gamehead200]

Hey guys,

Trying to figure out how to split a disk image (.dmg) file into two files. Its a 6GB file and it won't fit on my external drive as it is FAT32 formatted, and as we all know, the maximum size for a file on FAT drives is 4GB.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[EchoNoise]

I'm pretty sure that there are Splitters out there... Have you tried StuffIT?... I think that splits files...

[LLXX]

Here's one, but it's 3Mb which is surprisingly large for a file-splitter: http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/

Since OS X is Linux based you can just use the appropriately named split command.

Edited February 13, 2006 by LLXX

[EchoNoise]

Its actually based on BSD not GNU/Linux

[gamehead200]

Here's one, but it's 3Mb which is surprisingly large for a file-splitter: http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/Split&Concat/

Since OS X is Linux based you can just use the appropriately named split command.

If I do use split... How do I merge the two files later on?

[LLXX]

With cat... which stands for "concatenate".

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?cat

e.g. cat file.part1 file.part2 > wholefile will join the two parts together in order to form wholefile.

Edited February 14, 2006 by LLXX