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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
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[-] robolemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/

Only way to fly.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.

Of course, my hardware wasn't quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding 'v' flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).

[-] robolemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so "slow" meant 3 seconds instead of 1.

Now that I'm retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 3 points 2 months ago

I’m curious about the contents in your compressed shit.

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