<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>-v (Create Volumes) switch</TITLE> <LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>-v (Create Volumes) switch</H1> <P>Specifies volume sizes.</P> <H4>Syntax</H4> <PRE class="syntax"> -v{Size}[b | k | m | g] </PRE> <DL> <DT>{Size}[b | k | m | g]</DT> <DD>Specifies volume size in Bytes, Kilobytes (1 Kilobyte = 1024 bytes), Megabytes (1 Megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes) or Gigabytes (1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes). if you specify only {Size}, 7-zip will treat it as bytes.</DD> </DL> <P>It's possible to specify several -v switches.</P> <P><B>NOTE:</B> Please don't use volumes (and don't copy volumes) before finishing archiving. 7-Zip can change any volume (including first volume) at the end of archiving operation.</P> <H4>Examples</H4> <PRE class="example"> 7z a a.7z *.txt -v10k -v15k -v2m </PRE> <P>creates multivolume <SPAN class="filename">a.7z</SPAN> archive. First volume will be 10 KB, second will be 15 KB, and all others will be 2 MB.</P> <H4>Commands that can be used with this switch</H4> <P> <A href="../commands/add.htm">a (Add)</A>, </P> </BODY> </HTML>