On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 23:11 -0700, Timothy Payne wrote: > I have several .wav files (1200 +) but can't get them down to fit on my > second 40 gb drive. My FC3 install is damaged but works, but I would > like to move the files but can't get them down below 30 gb with tar and > gzip. Bzip is only slightly smaller. The total is about 45 gb. > > I could ask how to fix the problems on my install step by step instead > of reinstalling. The superblock was damaged and I did a reinstall > saving the old data, twice. > > any ideas short of purchasing a new drive would be helpful, I do have a > cd burner but that seems impracticable with that much data. You can use "shorten" to compress your wav-files *losslessly*. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
