Re: Webmin Filemanager

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

As far as I know the compressed ext2 patches have gone unmaintained for 
years.

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> Dean Mercer wrote:
> 
>> In the Filemanager there is a button "EXT" that seems to refer to 
>> extended
>> filesystem attributes (?) ...  I have  searched high and low for 
>> information
>> about these options.  I cannot find much that I can use.    Basically I
>> would like to know what I have to do to be able to take advantage of the
>> compression option.
>>
>> I asked a question about this to this list a few weeks ago.  The 
>> reason I am
>> reasking it is because I hoped that the question asked before was too 
>> poorly
>> worded for anybody to make sense of.
> 
> 
> 
> Have a look at the chattr man page under Linux - it explains the options in
> more detail.  As for the compression option, I am not sure if that is 
> actually
> used by the kernel to compress files on disk. There used to be a kernel 
> patch
> to enable it, but it is probably in the kernel by default these days ..
> 
>  - Jamie

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