Questions tagged [xz]
A container format for compressed streams. The .xz format can hold only a single file (it does not bundle multiple files into a single archive).
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How do I build a statically linked copy of xz-utils?
I'm trying to build a statically linked copy of xz-utils, such that the xz do not have dependencies on libc. I tried the usual way, which is to set LDFLAGS=-static, and works for most other packages ...
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xz print crc checksum
I have two files, of several gigabytes in size, which have been compressed with xz. I suspect the original files before compression are identical, but they've been compressed with different xz options ...
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How to open a .tar.xz indexed archivefile with Midnight Commander?
tar -I pixz -cf foo.tar.xz ./foo compress the Stuff. tar -I pixz -xf foo.tar.xz decompress the Stuff. And with pixz -l foo.tar.xz comes a list the contents. How can i do this with (mc) Midnight ...
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Is it possible to compress a tar ball with gzip/bzip2/xz after tar ball file has been created?
If we create a tar ball file by giving the following command tar -cvf Docs.tar $HOME/Documents/* then post creation of the tar ball is it possible to use gzip or bzip2 or xz or some other compression ...
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browse, read, write and rename files in archives, not mount - mc & dolphin
the computer runs a linux kernel and kde6. i use the dolphin filemanager. mark files, add them to an archive is a very usefull option. dolphin can go into archivefiles, but it would be very usefull ...
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tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I running $ cat /etc/*-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=...
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Why is 7-zip much faster than other LZMA implementations in Linux?
Until now, I used to backup my data using tar with one of the LZMA compression options (--lzma, --xz or --lzip) I recently noticed that 7-Zip has been ported to Linux in 2021 (https://www.xda-...
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How to XZ compress directory WITHOUT tar? [duplicate]
I know how to compress a directory with xz using tar, but is it possible to compress a directory using xz WITHOUT tar? If I try: xz -z myDir Then the following error is retured: xz: myDir: Is a ...
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CentOS 7: yum fails importing required Python module liblzma
I'm accessing a machine with CentOS Linux 7.9.2009, Python 2.7.5, and GCC 10.3.0 (the choice of python2 was not mine). I'm trying to install an rpm through the yum command, but got this error message: ...
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Compress Linux Kernel with xz
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to compress the Linux kernel with xz, and if so, how would I go about this? I actually tried compressing a raw kernel image with xz [a silly idea] and loading it ...
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Reading from stdin `dd` copies more data than reading the same thing from file [duplicate]
I encountered weird behaviour of the dd tool: I downloaded compressed "newsystem.iso.xz". I ran xz -d --stdout newsystem.iso.xz | dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=sync. The decompressed "*....
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Tar pipe to xz results in broken pipe
I have a backup script that runs the following commands: tar -c dir1 dir2 | xz -9 -T0 | gpg -c --batch --passphrase xxx | aws s3 ... The return values are always the same: tar fails with 141 (broken ...
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7z command to create a XZ file
The man page says 7z tool supports 7z, LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats. And it says we could pass the type as -t{Type}. ...
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xz: OOM when compressing 1TB .tar
I'm trying to compress a large archive with multi-threading enabled, however, my system keeps freezing up and runs out of memory. OS: Manjaro 21.1.0 Pahvo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.13.1-3-MANJARO ...
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Tar archive overwrote original file
I was compressing a rosbag file using tar when I mistakenly used the same original file name for the the archive name and had it overwritten by the output archive , the compressed archive size is very ...
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