Change to bzip2?
Steve G
linux_4ever at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 2 20:39:19 UTC 2005
>Of course, when you're talking about man and info pages, what
>are the chances that you actually save significant space when
>you take the filesystem block size into account?
To me, its not just about diskspace. Its also about bandwidth. I don't know about
how block size affects the following data, but here it is:
Uncompressed man page:
du -sh /usr/share/man/man?
26M /usr/share/man/man1
2.9M /usr/share/man/man2
52M /usr/share/man/man3
2.5M /usr/share/man/man4
3.7M /usr/share/man/man5
16K /usr/share/man/man6
1.7M /usr/share/man/man7
5.7M /usr/share/man/man8
8.0K /usr/share/man/man9
1.3M /usr/share/man/mann
Using gzip:
du -sh /usr/share/man/man?
17M /usr/share/man/man1
2.5M /usr/share/man/man2
40M /usr/share/man/man3
640K /usr/share/man/man4
2.2M /usr/share/man/man5
16K /usr/share/man/man6
1016K /usr/share/man/man7
4.2M /usr/share/man/man8
8.0K /usr/share/man/man9
684K /usr/share/man/mann
Total 82M
Using bzip2:
du -sh /usr/share/man/man?
16M /usr/share/man/man1
2.5M /usr/share/man/man2
40M /usr/share/man/man3
588K /usr/share/man/man4
2.1M /usr/share/man/man5
16K /usr/share/man/man6
976K /usr/share/man/man7
4.2M /usr/share/man/man8
8.0K /usr/share/man/man9
680K /usr/share/man/mann
Total 81M
One thing that skews the results is that some files were not compressed with
bzip2 because they were symlinked.
-Steve Grubb
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