What’s the difference between tar.gz and tar.Z

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The downloads on this page, e.g. of NetCDF C/C++/Fortran 4.1.3, show tar.Z and tar.gz formats. The tar.Z doesn't even have a configure file in it. What is it used for?

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.Z files are compressed with the older compress utility while .gz are compressed with gzip.

Some ancient systems might be missing gzip/gunzip so will use uncompress and .Z files.

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What’s the difference between gunzip and unzip

unzip decompress zip algorithm same *.zip files and gunzip decompress gz algorithm that same *.gz files. If you migrated from windows, You have many compression algorithm in UNIX world such as *.7z , *.gz , *.bz2 and so on. Also you can compress file which already archived with tar command: such as :

tar -zcvf mydir.tar.gz mydir #gz and tar
tar -jcvf mydir.tar.bz2 mydir #bz2 and tar 
tar -Jcvf mydir.tar.xz mydir #xz and tar

Mount compressed tar file and update it

By default archivemount works in read-write mode, probably the permissions of the mounted tar.gz file does not allow the user to update it.

Adding "-o debug" to the mount options could help to understand what occurs.

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Mount compressed tar file and update it

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