On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:33, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Which common Linux compression programs produce the best reduction in file 
> size?  I want to archive some of these album sides pending further 
> processing, so I have files of a couple hundred megabytes to scrunch down.  
> tar -z doesn't give me much compression.

tar -j will give you bz2 compression..

I've used it to tarball my entire file system on two machines.. 4GB
space used, and a 300Mb to 500mb tarball is the result. 

Would that work for you?

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