I did a couple of quick tests and it looks as though file roller is not
actually compressing the tar file, and it doesn't matter which
compression method is chosen. Not sure why it has this effect on your
files as the command works as expected for other files.
Steps to reproduce:
1) In Nautilus, right click on "backlightx" directory, Compress...
2) Select .tar.bz2
3) Resulting file size is 10.2KB
4) Right click on directory, Compress...
5) Select .tar
6) Resulting file size is 10.2KB
7) Right-click on .tar, Compress...
8) Select .bz2
9) Resulting file is 870KB
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064117
Title:
Extremly poor compression for .tar.bz2
Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I am running Xubuntu 12.10 beta 64bit
i created a archive for a folder
the contents are ~1.5kb the archive is over 10kb
i compressed the same files on my Ubuntu 10.04 install and the archive is 851
bytes
archive was created from the create archive option in the right click
menu in the file browser (thunar)
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