Instead of the disk space and i/o heavyweight: cat bigfile1 bigfile2 > bigfile.BIG It would be nice if there was an "unsplit" tool that just made the two files one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html