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Tar is not a compressed format. This is why it's usually paired with gzip or xz.
by Crespyl 10y ago
Tar is not a compressed format.
This is why it's usually paired with gzip or xz.
- Paul_S 10y agoI know it's not a compression format. My point is most formats that you put in tars are already compressed! Jpgs - compressed, RAWs - already compressed, any text format that isn't a plain-text file - already compressed. Compressing compressed formats is hardly worth it.