Re: BTRFS compression on install (also external drives)

2020-09-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:14:28PM +0300, Matti Pulkkinen wrote: > Thanks very much for the thorough answer. This answered my questions > nicely, and also cleared up a misunderstanding I had. Yeah, thanks Chris -- that was interesting and helpful! Seem like that'd make a good Fedora Magazine artic

Re: BTRFS compression on install (also external drives)

2020-09-30 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Chris Murphy kirjoitti 26.9.2020 klo 23.11: [snip] Thanks very much for the thorough answer. This answered my questions nicely, and also cleared up a misunderstanding I had. -- Terveisin / Regards, Matti Pulkkinen ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: BTRFS compression on install (also external drives)

2020-09-26 Thread Chris Murphy
p arrow and reissue the command until it works. It doesn't really have to be exact - Btrfs compression uses a maximum extent size of 128KiB. It's routine for files to have mixed compression for blocks. I > know I can add the option to the fstab file after installation, reboot, > and

BTRFS compression on install (also external drives)

2020-09-25 Thread Matti Pulkkinen
Hello! Is there a way in the Fedora 32 installer to set the compression mount option for a new BTRFS filesystem before installing Fedora itself? I know I can add the option to the fstab file after installation, reboot, and then run the defragment command to compress after the fact, but it wou

Btrfs compression

2010-04-29 Thread Valent Turkovic
Hi, AFAIK btrfs compression is enabled via mount option. I'm now installing Fedora 13 beta on / partition formated As btrfs. During install there is no option for compression. If I add compress option after install is there a way to compress data that was saved during the install? C