I was going to store a CentOS DVD iso file into my external hard drive but the image was bigger than 4GB, the biggest file size in FAT32, so I had to split it.
cat CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso | split -b 2200m - CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso-part-
This will generate files, each one of 2.2GB (except the last one that will be smaller), with these names:
CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso-part-aa CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso-part-ab
You can join them with cat:
cat CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso-part-* > CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso
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You may also split and compress it on the fly with tar and it’s z option:
tar cvzf - CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso | split -b 2200m - CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.tar.gz-part-
And of course decompress and join:
cat CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.tar.gz-part-* | tar xvzf -
