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by freedomben 68 days ago
Yep, btrfs will happily do this to you. I verified it the hard way
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kccqzy 68 days ago
Well btrfs supports compression so that’s understandable. However I personally prefer to control compression manually so it only compresses files marked by me for compression using chattr(1).
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freedomben 67 days ago
I've switched to that also. It surely wastes some space but being able to reason about file space is worth it to me for now
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