[CentOS] Re: tar spanning

[Scott Silva]

on 5-15-2008 1:31 PM Simon Jolle sjolle spake the following:
> On 05/15/2008 05:27 AM, Nick Fenwick wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I usually use rar for this task, because I can
>> figure out the command line in about 10 seconds by running 'rar' with no
>> arguments and check the help output, and they confuse my Windows-y
>> friends less if I need to pass them around.  Install rar from rpmforge.
> 
> I admit RAR is a file archiver that archives with very high compression
> ratios and is very popular in windows world.
> 
> But is proprietary software (not Open Source).
> 
> I recommend you using 7zip[0] currently leader in high compression on
> unix-like systems.
> 
>> To split a directory of files into roughly 700Mb bits:
>>
>> rar a -v700000k rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files
> 
> 7za a -v700m rarname_to_create.rar dir_of_files
> 
> Pre-packaged RPM is available at RPMforge[1]
> 
You just can't beat one thing about tar and gzip on unix like systems -- they 
all come with it "from the factory".



-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 258 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080515/9af017b9/attachment.sig>