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João Matos
João Matos

Reputation: 7020

Fast directory conversion to file

I have a directory D that contains multiple files and folders and consumes a very large amount of disk space. Although I do not care much about disk space consumption, I want to convert D into a file as fast as possible. The first approach that came to mind was to use a compression tool however it is taking too long to finish.

Is there a faster way?

Thank you for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 557

Answers (1)

Arash Khajelou
Arash Khajelou

Reputation: 570

you can use tar command, with no compression

with tar -cf you can convert your folder to a file, with no compression process.

tar -cf your_big_folder.tar /path/to/your/big/folder

and finally you can convert it back to folder with

tar -xf your_big_folder.tar

Upvotes: 4

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