Readers,
What is the risk of data corruption if a zip archive is added to a tarball?
If there is in-sufficient space on the local disk that contains the
zip archive, can the zip file be extracted and 'piped' to the tarball
on the storage disk (accessible via USB connection to the local disk)?
Hello,
On Saturday, March 15, 2014 09:13:08 e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> What is the risk of data corruption if a zip archive is added to a tarball?
>
> If there is in-sufficient space on the local disk that contains the
> zip archive, can the zip file be extracted and 'piped' to the tarball
> o
On 15/03/2014, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
>
> No IMO, you may not pipe the product of extraction (files, directories
> ..). I am not sure I understand your use case correctly. You basically
> want convert Zip-standard archive to tar/pax? I am not aware of any
> converter like this. Still, I don't se
e-letter wrote:
In other words, the tarball contains an archive.
Tarballs can contain any regular files, of any format. There are no
restrictions.
