Jason Mancini wrote:
# zcat backup.bin.gz | wc -c
67,645,849,600
# gzip -l backup.bin.gz
compresseduncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
9,458,450,3963,221,340,160 -193.6% backup.bin
This is a known limitation of the gzip format, and is documented in the manual:
http://www.gnu.org/
As title states.
openSUSE Tumbleweed 20191216 (x86_64)
gzip 1.10
(Number delimiters manually added for clarity below.)
# zcat backup.bin.gz | wc -c
67,645,849,600
# gzip -l backup.bin.gz
compresseduncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
9,458,450,3963,221,340,160 -193.6% backup.bin
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