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Borsook
August 18th, 2008, 01:44 PM
Does any of the file systems supported by Ubuntu allow a per file compression in the manner similar to Ntfs? If so, can it be done in the GUI?
Pumalite
August 18th, 2008, 01:59 PM
This might help:
http://ubuntuguru.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/whats-the-best-file-compression-method/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FileCompression
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=708600
Borsook
August 18th, 2008, 02:06 PM
This might help:
http://ubuntuguru.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/whats-the-best-file-compression-method/

The link is very interesting, but this is not what I mean - I have in mind a compression build in the file system itself that allows to compress individual files or whole partitions and their content can be used normally (i.e. it is unpacked on the fly) - such a feature is present in NTFS.
Pumalite
August 18th, 2008, 02:12 PM
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
adam_kimber
August 18th, 2008, 02:12 PM
Per file compression generally means creating an archive such as a zip, a tar or a 7z. 7z is supposed to be really good at file size compression, so if you want a small file then thats the way to go. Will have to wait it takes a while to compress compared to say zip.

However as you mention NTFS and that is disk compression you might want to have a look at the post by diaa at the bottom of this link (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245430)
insane_alien
August 18th, 2008, 02:15 PM
i think he is talking about filesystem compression where you can transparently compress a single file or the whole filesystem.
adam_kimber
August 18th, 2008, 02:25 PM
Then something like compfused, listed in my link, would be what he was after... :D
Borsook
August 18th, 2008, 02:26 PM
i think he is talking about filesystem compression where you can transparently compress a single file or the whole filesystem.
yes that's exactly it. :)
Borsook
August 18th, 2008, 02:42 PM
Then something like compfused, listed in my link, would be what he was after... :D

Yes it is pretty close to what I had in mind, a pity none of the many file systems available has this functionality built in, not to mention included in the GUI...
adam_kimber
August 18th, 2008, 06:47 PM
I will add that to my list of things that Linux is not as good as Windows. Which TBH is getting smaller by the day. Wireless and printing were my woes but they are pretty much working these days. I even have my XBOX360 wireless conroller working :D Next up integrated transparent filesystem compression. ITFC. :P