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minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoYeah, it’s similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.
minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agowait until you learn about .tar.lz
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoGood for image backups, after zeroing empty space.
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-210 months agopixz is in “extra” repo in arch. Same as pigz.
minus-squarezero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoThere’s several levels you can use to trade off additional space for requiring more processing power. That being said, I hate xz and it still feels slow AF every time I use it.
minus-squareMaSHiNiK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-210 months agoI hate 7z, it’s slow (at least for me) and for some reason I often have problems with these files
minus-squareTipRing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoIt starting 0.5 seconds slower than usual saved us all a bit of a headache as it turns out.
.tar.xz
Yeah, it’s similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.
wait until you learn about
.tar.lzGood for image backups, after zeroing empty space.
Tar lzma nuts, amirite?
TAR LAZER!
xz is quite slow though
pixz is in “extra” repo in arch. Same as pigz.
tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz
There’s several levels you can use to trade off additional space for requiring more processing power. That being said, I hate xz and it still feels slow AF every time I use it.
I hate 7z, it’s slow (at least for me) and for some reason I often have problems with these files
It starting 0.5 seconds slower than usual saved us all a bit of a headache as it turns out.
Same algo as in 7z
I had no idea about that!