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  1. I have a 20GB disk image of sparsely populated data -- less than 2GB used.

    The pigz (parallel gz) compressed it into a 2GB file in 1m 30s on 4-CPU 8-Thread CPU from an NVME drive.

    ```
    pigz -5c -b 4096 diskfile > diskfile.gz
    ```
    -5 -- level of compression (0-9)
    -b -- blocksize (default 128K)
    -c -- write to stdout (keep the original)

    #gz #linux #pigz