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Re: [cobalt-users] tar not compressing?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] tar not compressing?
- From: "Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Feb 23 17:50:39 2004
- Organization: Electronic Consultants Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I just noticed tarring my log files doesn't seem to make them smaller.
> I just tarred web.log by using the following :
> tar cvfp /home/sites/site4/logs/weblog.tar /home/sites/site4/logs/web.log
> and the resulting listing showed :
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root site4 12748800 Feb 23 18:49 weblog.tar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root site4 12744014 Feb 23 05:07 web.log
> So the tar is actually a little bit bigger. What am I doing wrong?
try
tar -czpvf /home/sites/site4/logs/weblog.tar /home/sites/site4/logs/web.log
You might like a better output filename too...
Zeffie
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