Re: shrinking the squashfs image size
Am 18.02.2017 um 16:30 schrieb intrigeri:
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> Either use a chroot local hook, or list these files to a SquashFS
> exclude config file passed to mksquashfs via the -ef in
> $MKSQUASHFS_OPTIONS.
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>> Also, I would like to run mksquashfs with additional parameters
>> -b 1048576 -comp xz
>> as that seems to shrink the image even further, thus reducing transfer
>> times (even though RAM usage will probably be the same).
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>> Where would I specify that?
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> Use the MKSQUASHFS_OPTIONS environment variable.
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> FWIW, in Tails we determined experimentaly that these settings were
> the most efficient in our case:
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> -comp xz -Xbcj x86 -b 1024K -Xdict-size 1024K
That shaves off another 4 Megabytes. Nice! Thank you.
Also thanks to Ginger_M for pointing out the hooks chroot approach.
Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur
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