Subject: Re: Disk Compression
From: Herbert (herb@kinetekpharm.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 16:33:53 MST
Thank-you for the input, however....
We are using several 27 GB hard disks and do not want to have to replace
them as of now. Is there a way to compress the entire disk? We are
currently compressing each file individually. (Among other things to save
space)
-Herb
>Why would you want to use either? With the cost of hard drives today, why
>bother? I remember the "Stacker" days, and boy if anything went awry, you
>were SOL! I lost a hardrive in the middle of a design job once. The
>client's data was intact, but on a "Stacked" drive. The disk I lost was
>my boot disk, which had the stacker driver as well as my OS. (This was
>DOS, back then). It took me several hours to get into that drive to
>retrieve the data.
>
>
>Stew
>
>On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Herbert wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone!!
>>
>> I'm setting up a file server with YDL on a Performa 6360. I was
>> wondering if I can use disk compression or do I have to use file
>> compression? Does linux support file compression readily? Or do I have to
>> d/l additional software packages?
>>
>> -Herb
>>
>>
>>
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