On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:40, Glen Wagley wrote: > So I have uncompressed data on a CD that is about 593 MB. I'm trying to > compress it so I can upload it to another box. So I try this: > tar -cz /mnt/cdrom/* > blah.tgz Yeah, it compresses it to a whopping > 584 MB. Hmm, what else could I try?
Nothing. You simply cannot compress the data any further than it already is. But you could try: tar -cjf blah.tar.bz2 /mnt/cdrom/* That would use bzip2 instead of gzip, which usually has higher compression rates. But judging by what gzip gave you, I'd say the data is too random to be compressed. Michael -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
