Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 12:43:49 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson <rkatsnel@globix.com> To: jm7996@devrycols.edu Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: disk space issues Message-ID: <3690FDD5.46529799@globix.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041238310.21067-100000@insomnia.local.net>
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"James A. Mutter" wrote: > > > gzip -r docs/* > docs.gz > > > > but that actually gzips every file, which is unacceptable on a live > > server. is there anyway I can get all these files into one gzipped one > > WITHOUT affecting the originals? or anything else I can do? > > > > Why not try using tar and then gzip? > > tar xvf docs.tar ./docs this doesn't work, because there's not enough space anywhere to store docs.tar thanks, roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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