On Monday 11 November 2019 14:00:51 Michael wrote: > On Monday, November 11, 2019 7:24:50 PM CET, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@rpi4:/media/pi/slash $ bzip2 -V > > bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. > > strange enough, i use the same bzip2 version on an rpi3 with raspbian > and it works with a 4621074432 byte iso image... > > nevertheless, there are two things you can try (i didn't, so i cannot > verify that it will work!): > > - read the bzip2 man page and try to compress it using pipes, e.g. > bzip2 -c - </path/to/your/big/archive.tar >/path/to/your/compressed/archive.tar.bz2
This seems to be working: bzip2 -c - <4.19.71-rt24-v7l+.tar >4.19.71-rt24-v7l+.tar.bz2 ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4038000640 Nov 11 10:05 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 780468224 Nov 11 14:33 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+.tar.bz2 No drama yet. Big grin though. ;-) > or > - read the tar man page and create the compressed tar archive in one > step, e.g. > > > tar cjf /path/to/your/compressed/archive.tar.bz2 <source> > > > > Rather ancient for 2019 code. > > old does not mean bad or even outdated. some things just serve their > purpose for a very long time w/o the need to change anything. > > greetings... Thanks Michael. When this is done I'll move it to download space and await the next error report. But since this tarball is slightly bigger that the first tarball I made from that exact source, I'm assuming the error some miscue caused has been fixed. The tarball gives a good list for a tar tf. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
