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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.

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