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    [–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/

    Only way to fly.

    [–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.

    Of course, my hardware wasn't quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding 'v' flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).

    [–] robolemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

    for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so "slow" meant 3 seconds instead of 1.

    Now that I'm retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.

    [–] JoShmoe@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago

    I’m curious about the contents in your compressed shit.