Faced a problem. How and with what to compress 15 million files of 10-100 kilobytes?

Question

linux

I do it on MacOS, I tried it in tar:
tar -cvpfz
But an hour later I got - tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
I need to pack them into one archive to put on a cloud drive, such as Google Drive.

Answer 1

But an hour later I got - tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Remove the useless v and run again - you will get a list of those very previous errors. We will talk about them further.

Answer 2

`--ignore-failed-read'

Answer 3

1 Fill in the free space with zeros.
2 unmount
3 compress disk image to 7z