Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 01:42:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: whitehat@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compression Message-ID: <20000117014252.A389@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3880C353.E809F6BB@home.com> References: <3880C353.E809F6BB@home.com>
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:58:27AM -0800, whitehat@home.com wrote: > > Is there a FreeBSD equivalent to the Windows drive compression tool > drvspace? I want to compress my drive in FreeBSD so I can have more > free space. The short answer is "no". The longer one is something along the lines of: The cost of every new MB added to a machine with a new disk, does not justify nowadays the need for any form of compression. The added overhead in reading from and/or writing to such a drive is another reason for not doing this. You can come up with a billion more reasons for not doing such a thing, especially concerning performance and reliability of the data on your disks. Ciao. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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