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Triple compression and I only save 1% in space?
I've been trying to save space on my linux server, and I had a folder containting, in subfolders, 22GB of images.
So I decided to compress them.
First I used tar:
tar -zcf folder.tar folder
Then ...
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How to bzip a file with minimum cpu percentage?
I am using bzip2 to compress a file,the process takes more that 100% cpu.Is there any way to run bzip2 with minimum CPU precentage.
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bunzip2 to a different directory
Say I have a file foo.tbz2 in a directory. I want to extract the tar file from the archive, but to a different directory. It seems like bunzip2 will only extract the archive to the same directory as ...
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How to check/test .tar.bz archives?
I've been using tar with its "--use-compress-prog=pbzip2" function to archive my files then compress them with pbzip2 to get an "*.tar.bz" archive.
Afterwards I checked the resulting file with ...
