[SunHELP] HOWTO compress and save large SunPCI-diskimage

[Michael Karl]

> 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).

Under Windows diskusage is 1.5 GB in a 4GB diskimage, zip-file is less than
1GB. It takes a long time, but this doesn't matter.

>> 
>> 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
> ?

Bigger one:
It runs some sec. and stopped with no error.
But the zip-file is only few KBs. Diskusage under Windows more then 6 GB.

> 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?

Thanks Michael