E2compr 0.3.6 User Manual

• Quickstart
• Introduction
  • What does e2compr do?
  • Why was e2compr written?
  • How do I install e2compr?
  • How do I use e2compr?
    • Examples
  • Current limitations
• Inside e2compr
  • E2compr implementation
    • Disk allocation without e2compr
    • Clusters
    • Uncompressed clusters
    • Cluster bitmap
    • That's it
  • e2compr at work
    • When does de/compression really occur?
    • Are decompressed data cached?
    • What if I decompress a file on a full device?
    • Compression errors
• Compression methods
  • Choosing a compression method
  • `none' method
  • Future methods?
• E2compr interactions with other packages
  • How does e2compr interact with e2fsck?
  • Can I still use a defragmenter?
    • Which files have an indirect cluster bitmap block?
    • How to dispense with indirect cluster bitmap blocks
  • Can I still use e2dump?
  • Can I still use zlibc?
  • Can I still use DouBle?
  • e2compr with the loop driver
• FAQ
  • How do I see if a file has not been decompressed?
  • Is it possible to compress a swap file?
  • It seems to me that files will be fragmented a lot.
  • Can I make a compressed boot/root floppy?
  • What files should(n't) I compress?
  • How do I uninstall e2compr?
  • E2compr doesn't seem to compress as well as gzip.
• Reference
  • e2compress
    • e2compress overview
    • Invoking e2compress
    • e2compress bugs and limitations
  • e2bitmap
  • e2ratio
    • e2ratio overview
    • e2ratio output
    • Invoking e2ratio
    • e2ratio bugs and limitations
  • lsattr notes
    • What the `c' flag means
    • Cluster size meaning
  • Error messages and strange behaviour encountered with e2compr
    • I get the error `Filesystem full'.
    • I get the error `File busy'.
    • I get the error `I/O Error'.
    • When reading, I see strange data in my file.
  • URLs usw. relevant to e2compr.
    • E2compr home page
    • Contact details for e2compr maintainer
    • e2fsprogs URLs
    • e2compr mailing lists
    • Reference for DouBle
• Glossary
  • Block size
  • Links
    • What is a link?
    • How to locate the other (hard) links to a file.
    • How to identify a file with multiple links
• Concept Index

This document was generated on 16 December 1997 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.