Glen,
Sounds like your data is not very compressible... what format is your
data? Note that jpg, mpg, and most audio and video storage formats are
already using compression internally and will not compress very well
(indeed, the compressed file may be larger than the original).
You *could* try specifying a higher compression level:
cd /mnt/cdrom # you don't want "/mnt/cdrom/" in the
# paths of the files in the archive
tar cf - . | gzip --best > /path/to/blah.tgz
or you might try "bz" compression:
tar cf - . | bzip2 --best > /path/to/blah.tbz
It is my understanding that bzip gives better compression than gzip,
but at a cost in memory and cpu usage.
-jan-
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