Post: <font face="Verdana,Arial,sans-serif" size="2"><b>Reply to this message</b></font>: One file! Didn't notice it when I use the tar command, hehe. by Sudo

Original Message: One file! Didn't notice it when I use the tar command, hehe.
And yeah, better use a compression format specifically for Unix file-systems when on Linux (so using the tar command, with the supported compression methods). And you can also use SquashFS, which allows you to mount the file-system, so you don't have to strain your disk with extracting the files. I even have some of my good old games in sfs files, which actually speeds up the loading when using a modern processor. Though you have to link-out the save-files. Let's see... Lords2.sfs (55MB)... extracted: 107MB! So almost half the space... as it uses .WAV files for sound, which is very inefficient. Anyway, good that you pointed out the file-attribute problem!

Original Message: One file! Didn't notice it when I use the tar command, hehe.

And yeah, better use a compression format specifically for Unix file-systems when on Linux (so using the tar command, with the supported compression methods).

And you can also use SquashFS, which allows you to mount the file-system, so you don't have to strain your disk with extracting the files.

I even have some of my good old games in sfs files, which actually speeds up the loading when using a modern processor. Though you have to link-out the save-files. Let's see... Lords2.sfs (55MB)... extracted: 107MB! So almost half the space... as it uses .WAV files for sound, which is very inefficient.

Anyway, good that you pointed out the file-attribute problem!

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