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Old 03-14-2007, 09:21 PM   #1
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Compressed file system?


Is there some way to have all files on a partition compressed, so that, although they might take longer to access, but decompressing them, the partition can hold more data? I could just manually put everything in tarballs, but I was hoping for something that automatically uncompressed files, putting them in RAM, whenever they became needed, then putting them back in compressed storage when no longer needed.
 
Old 03-14-2007, 09:44 PM   #2
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That's basically what a liveCD does. So, you might look into how it's done.
 
Old 03-16-2007, 11:35 PM   #3
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There are a couple. The one I remember offhand is compFUSEd.
 
  


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