Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:20:38 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: bentley <bentley3@mediaone.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk compression? Message-ID: <39D1F426.6E606ED1@mitre.org> References: <200009262246.SAA13060@duval.se.mediaone.net>
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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 <filename>). 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
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