On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 10:10, Philip Charles wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Rob Stockley wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 08:57, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > If 2.1G over 3 iso's contains approx 1.9G (guess) of data then where > > > > does the other 700M in the raw tree come from? Compression? > > > > > > No, the CD's contents is also already compressed (rpms' contents are > > > compressed). > > > > What I should have said was iso9660 compression if there is such a > > thing. Perhaps the data is stored more efficiently is a single iso than > > in seperate files on ext2. > > I build iso's from a file tree on the HD and there is little difference > between the size of the tree and the iso.
Nice. So there really must be something extra. I wonder if it's apps or installation data. Rob
