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I hope to expand this topic at a later date (and I'm 100% positive that I already have the content in one of my other sites). Until then, refer to the top answer at this StackExchange | I hope to expand this topic at a later date (and I'm 100% positive that I already have the content in one of my other sites). Until then, refer to the top answer at this StackExchange | ||
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381391/find-biggest-files-and-delete-automatically | https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381391/find-biggest-files-and-delete-automatically | ||
== When Pigs Fly == | |||
GZip and Tar are the venerable workhorses for compressing files and creating archives in Linux. [[wp:Mark Adler]] created Parallel Implementation of GZip (PIGZ) that leverages multiple cores and processors. For more on '''<tt>pigz</tt>''', and it's counterpart '''<tt>unpigz</tt>''', see https://www.tecmint.com/compress-files-faster-in-linux/ or <tt>sudo apt install pigz</tt> and RTFM. | |||
[[Category:Filesystems]] | [[Category:Filesystems]] | ||
[[Category:Backups]] | [[Category:Backups]] | ||