Compression is the process in which a file or folder's size is reduced by using an algorithm to encode the same information using fewer bits.
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GUI based options: Advanced Archiving “Zip 7z etc…”
Does a graphical archive manager exist for linux that has the advanced settings that 7z and others have on windows?
Something with settings like "Use here as temp" "thread count to use" "Memory to ...
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btrfs and missing free space
I converted my ext4 partition to btrfs and deleted the save subvolume after doing so. Then I enabled the compression (lzo) of the filessystem in the fstab file and everything is correct so far.
Then ...
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compressing a list of files by using tar
what I am trying to do is to compress a list of files using tar.
So what I am doing is
sudo tar -pcf filename.tgz `cat filename.list`
so if there is a directory on the list like this
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Unrar works really slow compared to Winrar?
Is there a particular reason why Unrar operations are so slow comparing to Winrar on Windows. I managed to extract a file faster in Virtualbox (Windows 7 guest with Winrar).
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How to compress (archive) partition (or disk) and then mount it directly
How to mount compressed disk image?
Here is my situation: I have hard drive with (fresh) OS installation. I made compressed image of that disk to another disk.
How to make compressed disk image to ...
