Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:55:46 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: unix <unix@donfishback.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hd compression Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201080852120.76220-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <02010809101102.70336@fmr>
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> It is easy to compress an entire drive in windows, I assumed that FreeBSD > would have something better... Yes, it is very easy to compress a drive in Windows. It's also increadibly unstable. It's because the FAT16/32 system is so inefficent, Microsoft tried to make it more efficent by introducing "compression," which is nothing more then a different file system type stored on top of the FAT system as a single large file. (Which is where it becomes unstable.) If you need to compress the files themselves, look at TAR or GZIP. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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