On 06/08/2010 03:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:55 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: >> Me, too! > > You too what? Oh, I see you're top-posting. Please don't do that. > >> How about the j option? > > Why don't you just try it? I've no idea and don't really care as I use > gzip in these situations. Tell us what you discover. The j option tells tar to use bzip2 instead of gzip. It compresses tighter, at a commensurate increase in CPU load. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines