OK, so I uploaded a 3GB ISO file to my site for future downloads. Unfortunately for me, whenever I attempted to download the file I was met by:<\/p>\n
\nForbidden<\/p>\n
You don’t have permission to access \/path\/to\/file\/nameoffile.iso on this server.<\/p>\n
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dumb. Good thing I have access to the log files. The error from apache stated:<\/p>\n
value too large for defined data type<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More dumb. As this is from my hosting company I can’t just go ahead and update the kernel or replace any config files I need. So I just needed to be able to compress the file and make multiple archives. Thanks to some command line tar I can do just that:<\/p>\n
tar cvzf - nameofyourfile.iso | split -d -b 700m - nameyouwantyourfiletobe.iso.tar.gz.<\/code>
\nNotice the trailing ‘.’ – this is used to create filename.iso.tar.gz.01, filename.iso.tar.gz.02 etc.<\/p>\nNow I just have to play the waiting game for it to finish.<\/p>\n
AND if you want to restore it later to ISO format:
\ncat filename.iso.tar.gz.* | tar xvzf -<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OK, so I uploaded a 3GB ISO file to my site for future downloads. Unfortunately for me, whenever I attempted to download the file I was met by: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access \/path\/to\/file\/nameoffile.iso on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the … Continue reading Split Giant ISO Into Smaller Files<\/span>