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• shisuko@mastodon.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @Telorand @s12 File compression? Never heard of them.

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?

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    • rotopenguin@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It can, but it’s not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.

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      • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Already using btrfs, since I’m on Bazzite, but I think I’ll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂

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  • s12@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because everyone has time to 7z a -m”x=9” an entire game that might be hardly compressible due to drm, whenever they want to unzip and play a different game! /s

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