Filesystem Compression

Posted by kprojects on Jul 1, 2013 3:44 PM EDT
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Many people know about compression by compressing a file to make it smaller for e-mailing. Others compress files to place on a small storage device such as a USB thumb drive or memory card. In these instances, a file utility is used to compress the data into a compressed format such as ZIP, RAR, TAR, and others.

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It's not just disk size, it's file size Bob_Robertson 4 1,082 Jul 3, 2013 4:39 PM

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