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Subject: Compressed file system (was: hi)
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krishnamurthy holla <kmholla@gmail.com> wrote:
 > Is there any Compressed File System For FreeBSD which can be used
 > as "root file system".

You can use geom_uzip, see the mkzip(4) manual page.
It can be used with any file system on top.  For a
FreeBSD root file system, you usually will use the
standard UFS, of course.

Best regards
   Oliver

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$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1
$ file test.pl
test.pl: perl script text executable