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Scoundreller 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

I’m surprised the concept of drivespace/double space died off. Maybe most files self-compress well from their native app, but I’m sure it’s not universal. OSs don’t seem to offer a prompt to compress relatively unused files and transparently uncompressed them on-demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace

drdaeman 24 days ago [–]

It did not, for example my /home is a btfrs mounted with compress=zstd:3

And some machines I’ve used, had swap on zram…

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