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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:23:21 -0700
From:      "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   bzip2split
Message-ID:  <26face530812211223m118c8f11rbc16e1a69e01f582@mail.gmail.com>

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Can I split a large (4G+) bzip2 file into smaller bzip2 files? Notes:

 % Obviously, 'split' won't work for 2 reasons:

  % Each chunk won't have the BZIP2 header

  % 'split' will cut the file inside a bzip2 "block", rendering the
  first/last blocks of each file unreadable.

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