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Re: [debian-knoppix] 7zip compression



On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:33:59PM -0800, mark everton wrote:
> Hello, 
> I am remastering a copy of knoppix 3.7 and added the
> usual -b option in the Knoppix-3.4.mkcompress script.
> But instead of the 7zip compression it gives me the
> gzip compression although it takes some hours to build
> it. Am I missing something? Are the 3.4 script
> obsolete? 

The -b option tries all gzip levels, plus 7zip, and takes the best result of
all (which is 7zip in about 93% of all cases).

It should show some statistics at the end of computation.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper


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