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I want to create an archive splitted on 300k archives but give me error

    tar -cf file.tar -k300 vi*       
tar: -k300: No such file or directory

I try to put -k before -c

tar -k 300 -cf file.tar vi* 
Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@[0-7]][bfk][X...] [blocksize] [tarfile] [size] [exclude-file...] {file | -I include-file | -C directory file}...

tar -f file.tar -c -k 300  vi*            
Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@[0-7]][bfk][X...] [blocksize] [tarfile] [size] [exclude-file...] {file | -I include-file | -C directory file}...

A workaround is to use gnu tar

gtar -cv --tape-length=300k --file=file-{0..10}.tar vi*

But I want to know how to make this with Sun Tar

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Solution found. As I understand -k option cannot work on regular files (works bad), need tape or floppy drive

In this example works for a tape and 13000 is 13000k of archive

tar -cvfk /dev/rmt/0 13000 bigfile

It will ask

tar: please insert new volume, then press RETURN.

Is also possible to use it on regular file on disk but it will create a strange "multiarchive file" which will include only the latest volume (every time you insert the new volume line it will overwrite the file "file.tar") instead of correct separate archive files

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tar -cvfk file.tar 13000 bigfile
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