From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QyncT-0005I4-N3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:26:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CA2821C30E; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com (mail-pz0-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D06421C2E4 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so1540198pzk.1 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.38.9 with SMTP id c9mr699855pbk.264.1314807786375; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([121.246.205.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z1sm30242951pbz.6.2011.08.31.09.23.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E5E5FE6.30600@nileshgr.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:53:02 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110831 Thunderbird/6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] compressed filesystem References: <4E5E5862.1000600@gmail.com> <4E5E5FA3.7070801@nileshgr.com> In-Reply-To: <4E5E5FA3.7070801@nileshgr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c2e4fa5f1987b63e986d1e447dd071e1 On 08/31/2011 09:51 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 08/31/2011 09:20 PM, Space Cake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to create some kind of "on the fly" compressed >> filesystem for backup purposes? My files are getting bigger and bigger >> but my external drive stays the same :) > > Btrfs supports on the fly compression > Another option is, you can use the squashfs trick, described here- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-646289-start-25.html -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com