Re: armhf version of bzip2 is broken

[Michael <ml@hemathor.de>]

On Monday, November 11, 2019 7:24:50 PM CET, Gene Heskett wrote:
> pi@rpi4:/media/pi/slash $ bzip2 -V
> bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010.

strange enough, i use the same bzip2 version on an rpi3 with raspbian and 
it works with a 4621074432 byte iso image...

nevertheless, there are two things you can try (i didn't, so i cannot 
verify that it will work!):

- read the bzip2 man page and try to compress it using pipes, e.g.
 > bzip2 -c - </path/to/your/big/archive.tar 
> /path/to/your/compressed/archive.tar.bz2

or
- read the tar man page and create the compressed tar archive in one step, 
e.g.
 > tar cjf /path/to/your/compressed/archive.tar.bz2 <source>


> Rather ancient for 2019 code.

old does not mean bad or even outdated. some things just serve their 
purpose for a very long time w/o the need to change anything.

greetings...