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From:	Nilesh Govindarajan <contact@××××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem
Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:26:29
Message-Id:	`4E5E5FE6.30600@nileshgr.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem by Nilesh Govindarajan

1	On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
2	> On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote:
3	>> Hi,
4	>>
5	>> Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed
6	>> filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger
7	>> but my external drive stays the same :)
8	>
9	> Btrfs supports on the fly compression
10	>
11
12	Another option is, you can use the squashfs trick, described here-
13	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-646289-start-25.html
14
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16	Nilesh Govindarajan
17	http://nileshgr.com