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Re: read/write compressed fs



On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:19:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 09/09/07 16:53, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:09:02AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 09/09/07 00:36, Alex Samad wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:34:54PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> >>>>> On 09/08/2007 06:53 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi
> >>>>>> I have a separate lvm for my /usr/share/doc, I would like to have this on 
> >>>>>> a compressed fs, just recently loaded libgcj-doc which took up ~500Mb for 
> >>>>>> a 45M deb file mainly text files.
> >>>>>> is there a debian way of doing that ?
> >>>>>> Alex
> >>>>> Although it relates to encryption, some of the ideas in this document may 
> >>>>> help you with your disk compression quest. Install doc-linux-nonfree-text 
> >>>>> from Sarge and read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Disk-Encryption-HOWTO.gz
> >>>> Interesting read and at first I thought this might be a solution, but does 
> >>>> encryption also mean compression ?
> > What?  Don't you want to encrypt all your Java docs?  Secret
> > stuff!!!  The DHS might break your door down and take your computer.
> > 
> > Seriously, though: Google has some info on a compressed FUSE.  That
> > may help you.
> >> yeah I saw something on a fuse overlay compressed fs, but I thought I would 
> >> asked the list about the "proper/debian" way of doing this ?
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> You do know that fuse is packaged, right?
yep, this might be my miss understanding but fuse in an infrastructure to allow 
you to add different fs into it like the ntfs3g stuff.

I found a read/write compressed fuse fs on I think source forge but I don't 
like going down the tar ball route if I can apt-get
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