On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Minh Van wrote:
> does tar/gzip do 'incremented' compression or does it compress the file
> before deleting it ? ie. if i had a 150 mb file, it would require about
> another 100 mbs of free space to compress it before deleting the 150 mb
> file ?
The latter. It creates a temporary file which is a compressed copy of your
original, and waits for sucessful completion before deleting the original.
DaZZa
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