Hi Imre, > Well, I think that a seperate partition with a compressed file > system and a block driver would be the best option.
I agree about the block driver, but I believe a file would be more flexible than a partition. Once you compress a partition, you would otherwise have to shrink it to make use of the gain. This would need partition table modifications... Too much work for a simple system :-). What I had in mind was more something like: Compress a partition or ramdisk in-place, then copy the result to a file and format the partition or ramdisk again, to get an uncompressed filesystem again. You can store the compressed filesystem file on that partition or at another place then :-). > At the time doublespace/stacker were released, people were not > intended to have many partitions on there drive. > But with linux requiring a multiple of partitions, it is proven > that people would lower there standards and settle for multiple > partitions anyway. Linux does not need multiple partitions. You can have everything on one partition and you can even use a swapfile instead of a swap partition. Yet I personally recently recommended a scheme of "root, dos, swap, usr, home" to a friend, because his BIOS could only boot from the first 8 GB of his 160 GB disk, so it made sense to put the first 3 partitions in that area (swap is useful for some hibernate schemes, possibly using the BIOS). > This would be the fastest, most straight forward way of doing it. As often with computers, there are many ways, also many good ones :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
