X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Pd2W1sZKsvQtqbgl NNIP1jjOUbuWTVpUy00BbGLdjZSR+NdflxOA4x5rBJXIWeBuN0DtzrAGRU/Ynerp 5hlQjVG66EDZ9xqiMy6xd1D7bJBhMFJDXgmk8cG8gLo8ema7hPZBvEuBMQtcQKKJ sebL8HMINLOoIAO7pYU6kMGRYv0= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=fWBygSszPP8L6lRQKO0495 U1zVE=; b=OEcB9IlqQFxaA7JXBNRJ+QIOUSagOh23vh+DmFmlizfh3GPbu9j5G7 9Mxe8Nyeqx+JHguPJfewYPpHI+TGSzymdjbgZuNLbbpQQCzpL/CHl3bPkN3c7MEX GKS8+QZIfYnrHeyzi6Q5sdlBTrgbHH4nElRuM+w70JTC0+q1Oryzc= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: mail-wm0-f48.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MefTNGuIR5ZkPZwXWdZ4V9y1qCqp+sa6QyV2G0cwPqA=; b=EN5HzrTZ+QFEHz7BOQyYINPao9VwWFTduluWRR7JX1fiLm3LyRha+E5LQUS7G6dv/z +Uk8EEgAxOKW1A4lzJ2w2M5sF5XZSXQSzjwbYFNtovn04cVJ+U+s31QJ7LHUrNjmFn3E QhCxemyfTgo7OapEKjQFaUDc2a4Ldntn1Px58rmdsu3tqGKkgKALIxYf8Aob6WKlU8QM zfTcZrygyqooJ7xtqa0Mj6VgbJfmtt9YAlrsR+9CBVZ7tlZGEgNkQYE4u9gdBOEOQGkt vhc98RLH2WWT7y1RJEe1rV6QxM7A57lmTQ1thYx5++W0fRBiwxi4xKR8ejD7gmiO0dL3 LdyQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUi5fbZTx/dNvInqrmSwFDV6U/7HElexVLDUwVjBtuJO6bp+/1fh TD2GGLosPAzXGm29XBhozgGFVA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QBrfJ9C3iJxg7hwKr/XQmw9ab/buyCUEo7C01pticOvtitnyOxxuCvL4S5ei//Er//WNwVEeQ== X-Received: by 10.28.208.72 with SMTP id h69mr9157133wmg.134.1506280762668; Sun, 24 Sep 2017 12:19:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: a few tar.xz packages are bigger than their uncompressed tar To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 21:19:12 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 24/09/2017 20:46, Jérôme Bouat wrote: > Hello, > > I looked into the local folder where the downloaded packages are saved > before they are installed. I noticed that a few compressed archives > files are using more size than their uncompressed form. For example, the > libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz file uses more space than its uncompressed tar > file (on cygwin x86_64). I do not see it $ ls -s libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz 280K libstdc++6-6.4.0-1.tar.xz $ ls -s usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll 1.4M usr/bin/cygstdc++-6.dll Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple