Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone explain this?
Tar stores files in so called "records". You will get different archive sizes, depending on the record size. The record size is measured in blocks of 512 bytes and is also referred to as "blocking factor". All this is described in detail in GNU tar documentation, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking.html#Blocking and http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking-Factor.html#Blocking-Factor Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
