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> hope you're not running -o compress=lz4 , because you are going to be in for a big surprise when you try to pull this emergency lever! you may be shocked to s

> hope you're not running -o compress=lz4 , because you are going to be in for a big surprise when you try to pull this emergency lever! you may be shocked to see you don't actually get much space back! This is true. If you are replicating this, copy from /dev/urandom rather than using an empty file.

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
It feels more elegant to do something like `touch /bigfile && chattr -c /bigfile && truncate --size 8G` to outright disable compression on that file