Hmm.. I looked into that already. However, what I'm backing up are already gzipped files so I doubt I'm going to get much compression there. Perhaps that's my problem (or at least part of it). I still wonder why I only get 3gb instead of 4.. is there overhead with tar that I'm not aware of? Thanks though. On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 10:21, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > > > remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event, I'm > > sure it's different in Debian than old SunOS... =20 > > If nothing else, you could create a compressed tar volume with the j > or z options to tar. > > -- > Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.nu/ > steveSPAM@.patter.mine.nu remove SPAM to reply > Linux Counter No: 142831 GPG Public key: 252B8B37 > Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. -- Eric N. Valor ericv@cruzio.com PGP Key 2048/1024 227B04CB Key Fingerprint = 766C CA15 0FFF E54B 2FEE C7D7 0F87 3AFB 227B 04CB : This Space Intentionally Left Blank :
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