Post #1704627
2026-04-26 23:17 UTC
Did you read the Wiki? You need to either pass the compress_extension option when mounting it. The Arch Wiki lists how to enable compression on all text files. And I gave you the version with a ‘*’, which enables compression for all files. Or you do a chattr -R +c ... on specific files or directories to compress them. Maybe you missed that and that’s why it doesn’t compress?!
There’s probably also a way to debug it and somehow figure out what it does and how many files/sectors got compressed on the filesystem, but I’m not an expert on it.
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@vortexal@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 23:26
No I did read it, I did the commands like it said but files weren’t being compressed. I can try it again though, if it turns out I did still do something wrong. Also, I tried formatting the sd card to btrfs without using gparted and it did work, and files are being compressed. Only problem is is that btrfs is using about 2/3 of the cd card, so I hope I can get f2fs working on it.
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@vortexal@lemmy.ml 2026-04-26 23:38
Nope, I just reformatted sd card back to f2fs, mounted it the way both you and the documentation specified, and files are still not being compressed.