On 06/13/2013 11:29 AM, To Ro wrote: > Thank you Bob. The Seagate drive has NTFS, I never reformatted it. There is > where the big tar file was. > Here is another question: How does the creation of a tar.gz ball occur? Is > it > > a) first compressing files and directories and then taring them > or > b) taring and then compressing? > > If the procedure is a), how big the compressed chunks are, how exactly does > it happen? It may explain the recovered pieces of 20,30,50 etc GB that are > declared by file to be "data". > > One experience I got: Never create big tar balls unless you have the > computer power to handle it. Especially if it is compressed.
It is first tar and then gz. Tar creates one file of all the data and then filters them trough gz. (You can create a tar.gz by issuing tar -cf test.tar file...; gzip test.tar). Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.ohost.de/
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