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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

.tar.xz

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 months ago

Good for image backups, after zeroing empty space.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

xz is quite slow though

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

pixz is in "extra" repo in arch. Same as pigz.

[–] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

Same algo as in 7z