How to create multipart rar file in Linux?

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How can I create multipart rar file in Linux using the official console rar client?

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I want a multipart rar with each part size being 150 MB.

Why use RAR? There are a lot of other file formats out there, ones that people don't file lawsuits over and are still widely used in 2010, like 7z, tgz, zip. — digitxp, Commented Sep 4, 2010 at 4:07
I too recommend 7z (p7zip) implementation. Not only it's a program free to use on Linux, but you also have a better compression rate. — polemon, Commented Sep 4, 2010 at 4:09
OK, I have asked this question for 7zip, too. Please help! superuser.com/questions/184557/… — hopeseekr, Commented Sep 4, 2010 at 4:36

Sathyajith Bhat · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-04 04:16:56Z

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rar a -v153600k <name-of-archive-file> <files-to-compressed>

will create 150Mb multipart rar archives

Personally, I'd use 7zip or bzip2 than rar, but that's my opinion

answered Sep 4, 2010 at 4:16

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