large files

[Gérard Milmeister]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 23:11 -0700, Timothy Payne wrote:
> I have several .wav files (1200 +) but can't get them down to fit on my
> second 40 gb drive.  My FC3 install is damaged but works, but I would
> like to move the files but can't get them down below 30 gb with tar and
> gzip. Bzip is only slightly smaller.  The total is about 45 gb.
> 
> I could ask how to fix the problems on my install step by step instead
> of reinstalling.  The superblock was damaged and I did a reinstall
> saving the old data, twice.
> 
> any ideas short of purchasing a new drive would be helpful, I do have a
> cd burner but that seems impracticable with that much data.

You can use "shorten" to compress your wav-files *losslessly*.
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Gérard Milmeister
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