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Re: [Help-tar] File compression
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Help-tar] File compression |
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Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:56:03 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 23 of February 2016 18:36:54 Siva Nesan wrote:
> I am creating a tar.gz file in two different AIX servers of same versions.
> size of the files are similar, however size of the tar.gz files are very
> different. one is 6GB and another is 50GB. Please advise if anything can be
> done to investigate.
Hi Siva, I believe it is GNU tar .. Are there sparse files involved? Is
tar returning with error exit status? Which options have you turned on
while you created those tarballs?
Pavel