On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo
> > powered laptop.
>
> For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2
> and gz?
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On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote:
> What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo
> powered laptop.
For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 and
gz?
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:53:05 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote:
> In an effort to put this matter to rest (and to save a little face), I
> have tested 7-zip.
Or you could have read the README that covers this in some details. It
not only says that you should use tar to preserve ownership and
permission
Matt Randolph wrote:
Matt Randolph wrote:
This may be a case of a different paradigm being used by 7-zip than
that used by traditional (*nix) compression tools. If my memory
serves me, the 7-zip format is very similar to the pkzip format in
its usage. By that I mean that one is not requi
Matt Randolph wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
In the September issue t
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
In the September issue there's a neat article
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
> > >
> > > In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha sam
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:49 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> So what's the problem? You'll be using something like "tar | 7z" or
> whatever
> the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership and
> permissions. Or am
> I missing something?
I could be missing something, my brain isn't working
Jerry McBride wrote:
> One side note, 7za does not record user/group
> info... It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux
> backup scenarios.
So what's the problem? You'll be using something like "tar | 7z" or whatever
the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownershi
fire-eyes wrote:
Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group
names etc, definately a "i'd try it" killer for me.
If it's anything like gzip or bzip2 then the compression algorithm does not
need to support anything like usernames or groups. That stuff is handled b
On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
> >
> > In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the
> > subject line of this message.
> >
> > The skinny is,
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 05:44 -0700, Stephen Micheals wrote:
> ive used lzma for a while in windows using 7zip but have not had much
> time to test it in linux using p7zip yet. (emerge p7zip)
>
Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group
names etc, definately a "i'd try i
ive used lzma for a while in windows using 7zip but have not had much
time to test it in linux using p7zip yet. (emerge p7zip)
On 8/13/05, fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
> > Hi,
> > that lzma is quite impressive!!
>
> Interesting, t
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote:
> Hi,
> that lzma is quite impressive!!
Interesting, there is an .ebuild in the source too ;) It's not in
portage, however.
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Hi,
that lzma is quite impressive!!
Is not my purpose to hijack this topic, but I was wondering if anyone
is kind enough to give me some comments about linux magazines. I been
looking into that for some time, but not enough to subscribe one, as I
wish to do. I know about Linux Journal and Linux Ma
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
>
> In the September issue
errr *grumble* yes but in this part of the world we actually get the
september issue in september, not the start of august!
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On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:
> Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL?
>
> In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject
> line of this message.
>
> The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I
> neve
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