[Nottingham] Calculating the overhead of "tar"

[Martin]

Mike Cardwell wrote:
> I have an obscure question, and this is the most appropriate list I read
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> I am confident that there is a method for calculating what the filesize 
> of a tarball will be, by simply knowing the filenames, filesizes, and 
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Either take a few examples and /try/ it to see for yourself 
(experiment), or look at the source.

A quick fix would be to just add say 5% or 10% and make the user very 
happy when it finishes slightly faster than expected!

A Google search might find some docs...

Good luck,
Martin


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