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Compression also means less disk I/O, not just space. I use ZFS and NTFS compression on all the things. For example, ~/.android on my desktop: "Size 1.49 GB, S

Compression also means less disk I/O, not just space. I use ZFS and NTFS compression on all the things. For example, ~/.android on my desktop: "Size 1.49 GB, Size on disk 293 MB". Not everything compresses as nicely but in general you can save a lot of space on a desktop.

Filligree 9y ago
How do you check that for a single directory? I only know how to check for a filesystem or pool.
- floatboth 9y ago
  Yeah I don't know how to check that on ZFS. That result was from NTFS on Windows, I thought the phrase "Size on disk" was enough for everyone to tell it's Windows :D