[SunHELP] HOWTO compress and save large SunPCI-diskimage

[Rob Fielding]

Michael Karl wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have two SunPCI-II-Card with one 4GB diskimage ... the second is 21GB.
> 
> I could save and compress the smaller diskimage with
> 
> tar cf - . | zip backup - (result = 25% size, like diskusage under Windows).
> 
> The same way with the bigger diskimage doesn't work :-(

Doesn't work as in doesn't get the same compression or doesn't work full stop ?

Not that I'd trust the results presented from any Windows utilities if your 
problem is compression result you're not working from the misinterpretation 
that all things compress equally are you?

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Rob Fielding	
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