HOw to use compress large files

[mitchell]

Dear all:

I tar a directory . then the size is very large , about 6G , then I use
gzip to zip it , But I can't do that , Does anyone know how to solve this problem ? Oh.. Do otehr tools do that . Thanks

 

[davorin]

What you mean by "cannot do this" ?

Is the OS not allowing it or what?

Maybe piping tar through gzip?

 

[mitchell]

I don't know . we use Linux 7.2 version , and when I use gzip to zip files . It will say " the lage value .. then break ' I don't know what's prob;em of this

 

[treebear]

Try use pipeline.

 

[flatulent]

The winRAR compression program allows you to split the compressed file into smaller files (of a size you specify) with numerals after them. It also allows the addition of extra error correction code so that if a file gets corrupted it will repair it upon expansion.

 

[mitchell]

Excuse me . What's " pipeline " mean ?
Becasue my folder is large . and I don't want to split
this folder . so I use tar . then How can I do it after
finish tar files . Can I use WinRAR in the Linux 7.2 version ???

 

[zubair]

u can use RAR 3.30 for Linux.

 

[prabhak]

tar cvf jdir.tar jdir
(where jdir is that name of a directory)

where c-compress, v-verbose, f-force

this should work.

 

[davorin]

nope..."-f" is file....
and always has to be the last argument to "tar"

please see the man page (o;

 

[mitchell]

Excuse me , I finish the tar file , and this files is large about 6G , but gzip can not compress it , can I
use some command to split this files . or other method . thank ..

 

[davorin]

Use the "split" command....see the man page for how to use it...

 

[computer_terminator]

Try use pipeline.

In RedHat linux, you dont have to use pipeline.
Just use tar zxvf for extract, and tar zcvf for compress.
z switch is using gzip to extract or compress.

 

[deepspawn]

-L, --tape-length N
change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
-M, --multi-volume
create/list/extract multi-volume archive

-S, --sparse
handle sparse files efficiently