Hi, folks.
Lately, I noticed that my once-expansive 3 gig Linux partition is
dwindling to a few hundred megs. Eventually I'll have to buy another
disk, but right now I have a _long_ list of computer stuff that I
_want_ to buy; I don't want to add something that I _have_ to buy to
it. :)
So, after my recent upgrade to 2.2.1, I decided to try e2compr. I
grabbed the Debian packages, patched the kernel (I had to use an old
2.1.132 patch, since the link to the 2.2.0pre5 patch was broken), and
began compressing files.
My question is, does anyone have any experiences, good or bad, with
e2compr? I've limited my compressing to my home directory for now, and
so far managed to get back around 100 megs or so. But, I'd really like
to compress /usr/src and /usr/local since I don't have any critical
system files there.
Also, I noticed something on the e2compr page concerning different
file formats for different versions. The notes mentioned something
about 0.3x using different formats than 0.4x. This concerns me. I'm
using 0.4, so the notes concerning different formats don't apply. But,
what if these formats change in later versions? It _should_ be a
matter of uncompressing the directories, patching and upgrading, and
then recompressing. But, is there some convenient way of seeing which
directories I compressed? I'm just keeping notes at the moment, but is
there a command which summarizes what I've compressed and displays
which directories contain the 'c' attribute?
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