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How to use zstd for very fast file compression

Posted by Alex On January 29, 2026

Table of contents A modern command-line utility for very fast archiving How much faster zstd is than zip and other archivers How to install zstd on Linux How to use zstd on Linux How to extract an archive with zstd on Linux 1. A modern command-line utility for very fast archiving The zstd utility is a modern compression utility that...

How to archive a folder in parts

Posted by Alex On July 16, 2024

How to archive a directory in parts in Linux Let's consider a situation: there is a very large folder (directory) on the server and it needs to be downloaded or moved to another server. In this case, you need to split this directory into several separate archives. Archiving the folder in parts is required, among other reasons, because there is...

How to add the plugin to Double Commander to support all types of archives

Posted by Alex On March 12, 2021

What archives does Double Commander support? Double Commander is an excellent open source two-window file manager. If you want to know more details about it, then see the article “Free analogue of Total Commander”. Double Commander, thanks to built-in plugins, out of the box supports working with the most popular archives: zip, jar, tar, bz2, tbz, gz, tgz, Izma, tlz,...

How to open a Linux drive on Windows

Posted by Alex On March 11, 2021

The Linux operating system uses its own file systems. Unlike Windows, for which the usual file systems are NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT, the popular file systems on Linux are ext4, ext3, and ext2. If you connect a Linux drive to Windows, or if you have Linux installed as a second system, then Windows simply will not be able to open...

Official 7-Zip for Linux has been released

Posted by Alex On March 11, 2021

7-Zip is a free open source archiver that supports several archiving formats, including its own, which has better performance than other formats, and also supports almost all existing formats for decompression. If you would like to know more about 7-Zip, then refer to the article “Free alternative to WinRAR”. 7-Zip was not officially released for Linux, but since the source...

Free alternative to WinRAR

Posted by Alex On March 11, 2021

Do I need an archiver now Currently, the era of archivers has passed. Ten years ago, the archiver was one of the most important and one of the most frequently used programs because the Internet connection was slow and many files were compressed into archives. At modern data transfer rates, unpacking an archive may take longer than downloading a file....