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arm

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Registered: 2003-07-31

Posts: 41

using upx compress your system !

tody i use upx compress all file in /usr/bin /opt/*/bin
it save my disk to 80M ,untile now every thing is ok.
should we add upx function to abs pacamn and makepkg to reduce pacakage size?
btw: i use upx1.2.4 ,do not use 1.90 is beta version!!!

i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: using upx compress your system !

Upx is great for saving some diskspace, but if you want serious compression then use a filesystem with build-in compression support, much better than compressing all binary files by hand. The main problem is that binary files don't take the most space on your hd, you would want to compress all files.

You can't reduce package size with UPX because the packages are already compressed, compressing twice doesn't make it smaller.

Haakon

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From: Bergen, Norway

Registered: 2004-05-09

Posts: 109

Re: using upx compress your system !

You can't reduce package size with UPX because the packages are already compressed, compressing twice doesn't make it smaller.

Compressing the packages with bzip2 instead of gzip would in most cases, but I suppose that has probably been debated to death

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: using upx compress your system !

Compressing the packages with bzip2 instead of gzip would in most cases, but I suppose that has probably been debated to death

Yes it has, but they came to the wrong conclusion.

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