On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed >> filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger >> but my external drive stays the same :) > > Btrfs supports on the fly compression >
Another option is, you can use the squashfs trick, described here- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-646289-start-25.html -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
