source: http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2008/09/split-and-merge-large-files.html split --bytes=1024m bigfile.iso small_file_ That command will split bigfile.iso into files that are 1024 MB in size (1GB) and name the various parts small_file_aa, small_file_ab, etc. You can specify b for bytes, k for Kilobytes and m for Megabytes to specify sizes. To join the files back together on Linux: cat small_file_* > joined_file.iso If it was a video file and the file would not seek then VLC can fix the video index or even better use mencoder -idx inputfile.avi outpufile.avi to regenerate the avi index