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What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions (itsfoss.com)
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[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Transparent fileystem compression and deduplication (btrfs feature not in ext4) compresses data while still having it be accessible normally. This leads to big space savings.

You can use the tool compsize to check it out.

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks. Will do.

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