UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello All.

I have problem archiving files.
The problem is
I have about 10000 files in one directory, all this file aproximately the same size, i need to gzip them and write on DVD. But all this files take about 15 GB of space (already gzipped). So i need DVD Blue-Ray or i need to split this files on 5 parts and upload them on DVD. I choose second)
Please help me on this issue.
I somehow need to tar this files in 5 archives, and then gzip tar archive. But i cannot understand the way i can tar them on different archives.
Or tar them in one archive and then split this archive on many, but will all files will be readable? if i will open only one part of such archive?

It will be realy nice if someone can help me. And this is not a Homework

If they are already gzipped, tarring and gzipping again is likely to bring only marginal gains, unless the files are very similar. Might be worth it to just burn one DVD more and put them as regular files without tarring and gzipping -- you don't want to risk making all of them useless if one of the DVDs is damaged. Also the added benefit of random access is muuuuch nicer than having to read through four DVDs of gzipped tar just to extract a single file on the last DVD.

Thank you for fast reply.
But the problem is that windows machine is hanging when i'm trying to open folder where this file storred.
About DVD's i'm always making double copy of DVD in this cases .
Unix reading them perfectly. i just need to tar and gzip them in different files.
Somehow i need to create list of files, split this file on 2000 rows, tar files according list, and then gzip this tar. I know how to tar and zip but i don't know how to tar files according to the previously created list, or in the best way make tars which have only 2000 files.

Windows I believe mainly has issues with directories with many files in them. If you create a deeper directory tree with a smaller amount of files in each, even poor Windows should be able to cope. It might even bring an opportunity to clean up the file organization a bit.