CentOS List wrote: > I have a directory with 18GB worth of files and I would like to tar span and > burn it into a few DVDs after that. How can I do this in command line? For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y friends less if I need to pass them around. Install rar from rpmforge. To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits: rar a -v700000k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files I recently wanted to split a large .iso of already highly compressed data into chunks that would fit on a FAT32 filesystem, so this is with no compression: rar a -v700000k -m0 rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files I just noticed that Fajar beat me to quoting google hits relating to 'tar | split' so I'll hold off doing the same :) Nick