Compression Programs
Joe Brouhard
jbrouhard at kcosc.com
Sat Dec 27 23:04:49 CST 2003
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:33, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Which common Linux compression programs produce the best reduction in file
> size? I want to archive some of these album sides pending further
> processing, so I have files of a couple hundred megabytes to scrunch down.
> tar -z doesn't give me much compression.
tar -j will give you bz2 compression..
I've used it to tarball my entire file system on two machines.. 4GB
space used, and a 300Mb to 500mb tarball is the result.
Would that work for you?
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Joe Brouhard
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