title: how to delete very large file on Linux
body: <p>I have a 63 GB file that needs deleting on Linux.  My trash is only 6 GB right now. I tried to split the 63 GB file into 63 1 GB files, and that worked.  However, the file I split remains, so I still cannot delete it.  I wanted to unzip this 63 GB file, but I found when I did that that it had a few places that were corrupt in it, so I have to delete it and try again.  </p>
  
  <p>Originally, I had 63 1GB files, .z01, .z02, .z03....,.z62,.zip.  I searched the internet, and found that the way to unzip this massive amount of files, was to first join them together, and that is the 63 GB file.  However, when I tried to unzip it, it only partially unzipped, and did not work, so I now need to delete this 63 GB file, and start again trying to join together the 63 zip files (.z01, .z02....,.z62,.zip) together in hopes that they are not partially corrupt this time, so that I may then unzip them to obtain my families memories.</p>
  
  <p>A web site on which I had stored years of photos and videos is shutting down, and they sent me this zip files that must be joined together before they can be unzipped.</p>
  
  <p>I did try the procedure on another 2 zip file total directory that this place sent me, so .z01,.zip (each 1 GB) were joined together in one 2 GB file.  I then unzipped these successfully without issue, and obtained some other upload from this site, and the 2 GB file deleted of course with no problem.  I used a program I downloaded from the internet to join them together (called HJ Split that both joins and splits files together).  However, I think I could have used the command line "join" to join the 2 zip files together too.  I used "unzip" to unzip the 2 joined files into my directories of photo and video memories on Linux.</p>
  
  <p>Also - would it be possible to just increase the size of my trash temporarily to over 63 GB, so I can delete that corrupted file?  I had thought when I split that file, once that procedure completed it would delete the old huge file, but it's still there!  I can't get rid of it to start over.  The command I used was: split --bytes=1G joined_63GB_file.zip</p>
  
  <p>Thank you - any help will help recover years of my family's memories, especially when my kids were very young.</p>