Linux 101: How to create a zip file in Linux Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

Here goes the recipe:<BR><BR>Create an empty file of 650MB size.<BR><BR>dd if=/dev/zero of="empty_file" bs=1024k count=650<BR><BR>Create an extended-2 filesystem on this file<BR><BR>shell> /sbin ...

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