[SOLVED] Linux utility to do fast decompression of rfs.tar.bz2

jegadezz · 07-14-2016, 01:52 AM

Hi All,

I have a rfs tar (~1.5 GB) and It takes 10 minutes to decompress. Is there any linux utility can do better in terms of time consumption. I have found lbzip2, pbzip2 and These utility are doing decompression in parallel. Can you guys tell me which tool is very fast to decompress.

Thanks in Advance.

chrism01 · 07-14-2016, 02:43 AM

It depends how it was compressed. Many tools, inc bzip2, gzip etc have a param used during compression with a value from 1-9 that determines how hard to try and compress it. The harder it tries, the longer it takes. I beleive (?) that highly compressed eg level 9 files, will take longer to decompress.
http://linux.die.net/man/1/bzip2

(I haven't tested decompression speeds specifically for that effect though.)

AwesomeMachine · 07-14-2016, 02:59 AM

Probably not. As chrism01 states, decompression speed depends on the compression setting. Every program that decompresses bzip2 will simply call bunzip2. So it won't really matter which one you use. 10 minutes sounds within the realm of possibility to decompress a 1.5GB bzip2 file.

John VV · 07-14-2016, 01:20 PM

i move around some big files
1 to 25 Gig
10 min for a 1.5 gig bz2 sounds about right
depending on WHAT the data is using "gz" or "xv" or " 7z " might be smaller and or take less time
or take more time

experiment text compresses differently than a photo