Quoting Gerald Timothy Quimpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i know this seems perverse, but is there a compressed filesystem > for linux? i'm on a notebook, space is limited, and i'm doing > some things which involve pretty large files. and a 30Gig > notebook drive is not in the works.
They exist, but are obscure and somewhat difficult to track down. http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/dmsdos/faq.html http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/gnudocs/gnudocs/zlibc/zlibc_1.html http://zlibc.linux.lu/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/ http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/Constructing%20a%20cramfs%20image http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-00/0058.html http://cvs.bofh.asn.au/e2compr/ http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/ (portions concerning JFFS2) http://sources.redhat.com/jffs2/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/cloop-utils.html (cloop) http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/fs/zisofs/ (zisofs) Good luck. The information on most of those is sparse, and it's obvious that many are aimed at boot images (and consequently, some are read-only). -- Cheers, "This is mad, egotistical, sick, twisted, and stretches the bounds of Rick Moen good taste right off the tongue, past the uvula, and down around [EMAIL PROTECTED] the duodenum. It has other merits, but that should indicate positive interest." -- The Cube, http://www.forum3000.org/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
