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Re: Tar overhead
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Tar overhead |
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07 May 2003 13:50:32 -0700 |
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Kaushik Roy <address@hidden> writes:
> Is there any way to estimate the size of a tar file - i.e is there
> any way to know approximately what overhead the tar adds to a file
> or directory it archives?
You can look at tar.h in the tar source code, and see what the header
size is.
For most cases "du DIR" should be close enough.
- Tar overhead, Kaushik Roy, 2003/05/07
- Re: Tar overhead,
Paul Eggert <=