---
name: "gfimport_fixed"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gfarm-client"
version: "2.3.2-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gfimport_fixed"
---

# gfimport\_fixed(1)

divide and register a fixed-size data file

## NAME

gfimport\_fixed - divide and register a fixed-size data file

## SYNOPSIS

**gfimport\_fixed** \[ *options* \] *file*

## DESCRIPTION

**gfimport\_fixed** is a sample program for dividing a file to file fragments and registering it to the Gfarm filesystem.

## OPTIONS

- **-H**

  *hostfile* specifies a hostname list of filesystem nodes.  The *hostfile* consists of a hostname of a filesystem node in each line.  The file is uniformly divided into file fragments, each file fragment except the last one having the same size. if \`\`-'' is specified, standard input is used to read the host list.

- **-f** *fragment file*

  specifies a *fragment file* that consists of a fragment size and a filesystem node separated by a white space in each line.

  if \`\`-'' is specified, standard input is used.

- **-l** *record size*

  specifies the size of fixed-size records in bytes.  With this option, file is divided by the multiple size of the *record size*. Default size is 1.

- **-o** *gfarm-URL*

  specifies an output file.

- **-?**

  displays a list of command options.

## EXAMPLES

### IMPORTING BY SPLITTING TO SPECIFIED NUMBER OF FRAGMENTS

The following is an example using **gfimport\_fixed**  to import a *source\_file*  as *gfarm:file*  by splitting to 8 fragments.

```
gfsched -N 8 | gfimport_fixed -H - -o gfarm:file source_file
```

### IMPORTING BY SPLITTING TO SPECIFIED NUMBER OF FRAGMENTS FOR PARTICULAR PROGRAM

The following is an example using **gfimport\_fixed**  to import a *source\_file*  as *gfarm:file*  by splitting to 8 fragments to be processed by *gfarm:prog* program.

```
gfsched -N 8 -p gfarm:prog | gfimport_fixed -H - -o gfarm:file source_file
```

### IMPORTING INTO SAME DISPOSITION WITH AN EXISTING GFARM FILE

The following is an example using **gfimport\_fixed** to import a *source\_file*  as *gfarm:file*  into same disposition with existing file *gfarm:template*.

```
gfsched gfarm:template | gfimport_fixed -H - -o gfarm:file source_file
```

## SEE ALSO

[**gfimport\_text**(1)](/gfimport_text/1.md), [**gfsched**(1)](/gfsched/1.md), **gfarm.conf**(5)