From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 26 1:39:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from FreeBSD.mine.nu (unknown [203.106.101.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02D137B401 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:39:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by FreeBSD.mine.nu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17273; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:51:24 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from root) From: Ariff Abdullah Reply-To: skywizard@time.net.my Organization: FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE To: Axel Scheepers Subject: Re: On the fly compression Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:48:00 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20010126101716.A16754@surf.iae.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010126101716.A16754@surf.iae.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012617512403.17166@FreeBSD.mine.nu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Dear sir/madam, > > I recently started using FreeBSD instead of Linux. I was used to the feature of > compressing filesystems on the fly but can't seem to find a way to do that > using FreeBSD. I've asked several newsgroups but noone knew... > Do you know > if this feature is implemented or will be ? > > Thanks in advance, > Axel I dont have any idea about compressing the file system (If I'm wrong do correct me). But you can compress the binary itself using gzip. Just make sure you have the appropriate kernel with support of executing gzipped compressed binary. Refer to the LINT. good luck -- /\_____ / ./__ / __/ < I do understand.. / ___/ / / ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ *warf* *warf* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message