seems it does compress it just sets a min size (sounds really dumb for a compression app to do)
from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2065402#4 : here file-roller is 'compressing' but will never go below 10.2kB So - a folder with a number of small files 43.6kB goes to 10.6kB 34kB goes to 10.2kB 15kB goes to 10.2kB 1.5kB goes UP to 10.2kB -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1064117 Title: Extremly poor compression for .tar.bz2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/1064117/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
