Re: When is a tar file not a tarfile?

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a compressed tar file, and I unpack it in one place....
> 
>  tar xzf thisfile.tgz
> 
> and then I see how much spave it took up. Let's say it took a
> total of 3.8 MB. Then, I copy this to another linux machine, and
> issue the SAME command. Now, the result takes up about 6.5 MB!
> How can this be?!?

It contains a lot of small files and you unpacked it on two
different filesystems which have different block sizes?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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