When to use tar , gzip and tar+gzip ?
 

hi,

When should anyone use 1)only .tar ,
2)only gzip and
3)tar and gzip together ?

pls make it clear to me.

thanx in advance.

Hello,

Could you clarify your question please? Do you mean when to compress or extract?

A simple answer would be to use

-- gzip: when it's a single file that should be compressed
-- tar : when you want to archive a bunch of files but need no compression or fast execution
-- tar.gz: archive bunch of files with intermediate compression (will take longer)
-- tar.bz2: archive bunch of files with good compression (takes even longer)

hi titopoquito ,

thanx a lot for making it clear to me.

hi vmlinuz.gz ,

yes now it's clear.