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by canucker2016 582 days ago
Don't forget that with this two-step method, you also require enough diskspace to hold the entire ZIP archive before it's sharded.

AFAIK you can create a ZIP archive saved to floppy disks even if your source hard disk has low/almost no free space.

Phil Katz (creator of the ZIP file format) had a different set of design constraints.