Questions tagged [xz]
The .xz file format is a LZMA2 based compression format. There are no archiving capabilities so .xz files only hold one compressed file.
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What are the implications for bug CVE-2024-3094 (ssh / xz) and how to minimize potential damage?
What are the real implications for bug CVE-2024-3094 (related to SSH and the XZ library) and how to minimize potential damage to the server?
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PiShrink creating files with different sizes with the same input
I've recently started using PiShrink to decrease the size of backup images and I noticed that the file size of an with PiShrink shrunken and xz compressed image.
sudo pishrink.sh -Z input_image.img ...
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Decompressed a .xz file and now it has no extension and is not a directory
I had a directory of files that I compressed using:
tar -cvJf my_directory.xz my_directory
Now I've gone to decompress it using:
xz -dv my_directory.xz my_directory
and the resulting file is simply ...
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The most complete backup of /dev/sdX with dd, tar, gz, xz
What is the most complete way to backup/restore entire /dev/sdX (to/from a file) including device partition table and partition flags, all possible metadata, owners, file permissions, ACLs, creation/...
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Error extracting tar.xz files on Linux
I have a bunch of tar.xz files I need to extract. I tried using the following command, but get errors when it tries to extract individual files.
tar -xJf file.tar.xz
tar: Example_path/and_file_name....
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Error extracting tar.xz files in Windows using command line
I have a bunch of tar.xz files I need to extract. I tried using the following command, but get an error.
tar -xJf "S:This_Is\the path\to_my_file.tar.xz"
tar: Error opening archive: Can't ...
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Is there a way to extract partial content from a tar.xz file?
I have a tar.xz file in a server. I would like to see what is inside and extract some of the content. The problem is that this file is 1.24TB large! My local PC can not hold it.
Is there a way to ...
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How to let xz show percentage progress when compressing block device in Linux?
When I use xz to compress a block device (e.g. /dev/sda1), --verbose shows the current size read from input file (128 MiB below). However, it does not show the percentage of input file read (--- % on ...
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Decompress a tar.xz file using all cores
I have 37 GiB File which was created by tar + xz. I have a server with 6 cores, so for maximum compression speed I want to use all my 6 cores using this command
XZ_OPT='-T0 -9 –memory=75%' tar -cJf ...
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how do i use fuse to mount a file in a compressed file as a symlink
i have a directory full of .xz files, each containing a single file (not tar).
uncompressed, the directory is 23GiB. (*.xml)
compressed, the directory is 1GiB. (*.xml.xz)
how do i fool the filesystem ...
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Ffmpeg decompress xz/gz/zip in memory
I have a xz compressed y4m raw video file (sintel-4k.y4m.xz) and I would like to transcode it using ffmpeg, decompressing in memory. I do not have enough disk space to decompress the file to disc and ...
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Create Fixed Size xz archive
I want to create an xz archive with exact size 8MB, I use 7z to create archive but the size is less than 8MB I know xz support padding to increase size
but I dont know which tools suppurt this feature ...
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An installation script in a Docker's container fails due to xz command
I am trying to install PredictProtein for Docker from here.
The script for installing the database used by PredictProtein downloads the data as a .txz file.
After downloading, the script attempts to ...
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backports/lzma/_lzmamodule.c(115) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'lzma.h': No such file or directory
I have a Windows 7 PC with Visual Studio 2015 upgrade 3 installed on it and I would like to install backports.lzma library for Python with pip.
I have downloaded and extracted XZ Utils in Program ...
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Getting "Error: Empty archive" when installing wine using homebrew
I am trying to install wine on my mac using homebrew following this tutorial: https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/
In step 4 when I do "brew install wine" I get the following:
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