split a tar archive
split -b 2m node-v5.11.1-linux-x64.tar part_
Will produce:
part_aa part_ab part_ac etc etc (in this case each file above will be 2MB in size)
Now concatenate the parts:
cat part* > node-v5.11.1-linux-x64.tar
NOTE: if you run a file on one of the parts you can see details of the original file