Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

[John Richard Smith]

HaywireMac wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200
Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
 

$ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/

will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file 
named archive_file.tgz.
v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's
making.

   

Thanks to you and Tony, I had it backwards, I was putting the dir to be
archived 1st, that's why it wasn't working.
Weird thing is though, if I do a small dir using ROX Archive, it's
really fast, as you say it should be (I have a P3 866), but as soon as
it's a dir of any size, say 100MB, it never seems to end.
I'll try it from the CLI instead, thanks guys!

 

But you first cd to directory where archive file is to be made ?
and then tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/
or,tar cf archive.tar -L N directory_to_tar/ if you want to split the 
archive.

John

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