From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 12:41:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A87E137B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nasby.net (sysnasby@2.nasby.dsl.enteract.com [216.80.51.18]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA92322; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:41:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@nasby.net) Message-ID: <39D24D65.BD778BDB@nasby.net> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:41:25 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" Organization: distributed.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bentley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk compression? References: <200009262246.SAA13060@duval.se.mediaone.net> <39D1F426.6E606ED1@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you're looking to maximize your compression, you might want to check out bzip, as I've heard that it gets much better compression ratios than gzip -9 does, at least on text files. "Andresen,Jason R." wrote: > > bentley wrote: > > > > IS THERE a program in the ports collection that lets you compress the files > > you download a little to save space? > > Do you mean a compression utility? FreeBSD ships with gzip, which > compresses files just fine (gzip ). Also, you can compress > executables and FreeBSD will automatically decompress them at runtime. -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message