piping output of dd through bzip2

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Mon Jan 14 19:46:57 EST 2002


Why should I use bzip if bzip2 gives better compression?
Greg


On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:57:06PM -0700, Jason wrote:
> try it with 'bzip > windows.img'
> On Monday January 14, 2002 03:42 pm, you wrote:
> > Ok, I've just tried the following using the format indicated.
> >
> > "dd if=/dev/hda1 |bzip2 -9 windows.img"
> >
> > The result was:
> >
> > bzip2: Can't open input file windows.img: No such file or directory.
> > 9+0 records in
> > 8+0 records out
> >
> >
> > Greg
> >
> 
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