From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 6:21:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB21637B422 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09789 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:21:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22214 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G1JRRQ00.1RC; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:21:26 -0400 Message-ID: <39D1F426.6E606ED1@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:20:38 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bentley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk compression? References: <200009262246.SAA13060@duval.se.mediaone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bentley wrote: > > IS THERE a program in the ports collection that lets you compress the files > you download a little to save space? Do you mean a compression utility? FreeBSD ships with gzip, which compresses files just fine (gzip ). Also, you can compress executables and FreeBSD will automatically decompress them at runtime. > and > > is there a way to use different compression algorhythyms like Linux lets you > have 3 different type of ways to write things...something about specifying > your cluster size i think...iremember one was 1024 Are you sure this was compression instead of just disk optimization? You can set various disk optimizations in FreeBSD with tunefs. I don't think there are any "whole disk" compression suites for FreeBSD though, but in these days of $150 45GB drives, it doesn't seem like much of an issue. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message