On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ > > will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file > named archive_file.tgz. > v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's > making. > > On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than > 600Mbyte of data. Ok, so there's definitely something wrong with the way ROX Archive is doing it. Thanks to you and Tony, I had it backwards, I was putting the dir to be archived 1st, that's why it wasn't working. Weird thing is though, if I do a small dir using ROX Archive, it's really fast, as you say it should be (I have a P3 866), but as soon as it's a dir of any size, say 100MB, it never seems to end. I'll try it from the CLI instead, thanks guys! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -- Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"
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