From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 15:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg137-048.ricochet.net [204.179.137.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF1937BA13 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:55:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00868; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:59:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006152259.PAA00868@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gustavo Pamplona Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixit - Recover Disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jan 1980 19:40:21 -0300." <3.0.3.32.19800104194021.0068aeb4@uai.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:59:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm new at this mailling list. Sorry for my english, I'm a brazilian. > > I'd like to know one thing about this disk. How the guys from Berkeley did > that disk? They didn't. > This is because of the files at /stand directory of the disk. There are 54 > files of 1.1MB at the /stand and this files fill only 1142 KB of the disk. > > How is it possible? (Fill 62MB inside a room of 1142KB) Quantum compression. 8) > Anybody could answer to me? Actually, if you look you'll see that there are 54 links to one single 1.1MB file. Look at the crunchgen manpage. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message