From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 13:34:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC6F37B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8RKY8A03970; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:34:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk compression? References: <200009262246.SAA13060@duval.se.mediaone.net> <39D24D65.BD778BDB@nasby.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 27 Sep 2000 16:34:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: jim@nasby.net's message of "27 Sep 2000 21:42:00 +0200" Message-ID: <44pulpzi9s.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jim@nasby.net (Jim C. Nasby) writes: > 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. Well, yes, but bear in mind that "much better" in this case means that a difference of, at most, a percent or two of the original size. In some cases, of course, the bzip'd files will be bigger. Given that the original poster specifically mentioned downloading, I suspect that much more useful would be the automatic compression built into scp, but I'm just guessing here. Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message