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From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: unix <unix@donfishback.com>
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Subject: Re: hd compression
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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


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