Once in a while, I get large zip files from clients. Since they are running Windows, their zip tool doesn't have the same 4GB limitation that the unzip command-line tool under Linux usually has.
I just tried zipping and unzipping this file
-rw-r--r-- 1 ldo users 7769948160 Dec 10 2015 new/distros/CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1511.iso
which as you can see is over 7GB in size, using the standard Debian “zip” and “unzip” commands. Worked just fine.
(For what it’s worth, the zip archive compressed the file down by just 3.4%.)
unzip -q file.zip warning [file.zip]: 810575875 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile (attempting to process anyway) error [file.zip]: start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt. (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly) The file size is 4.8GB (5106462267 bytes). Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/