>Of course, when you're talking about man and info pages, what >are the chances that you actually save significant space when >you take the filesystem block size into account? To me, its not just about diskspace. Its also about bandwidth. I don't know about how block size affects the following data, but here it is: Uncompressed man page: du -sh /usr/share/man/man? 26M /usr/share/man/man1 2.9M /usr/share/man/man2 52M /usr/share/man/man3 2.5M /usr/share/man/man4 3.7M /usr/share/man/man5 16K /usr/share/man/man6 1.7M /usr/share/man/man7 5.7M /usr/share/man/man8 8.0K /usr/share/man/man9 1.3M /usr/share/man/mann Using gzip: du -sh /usr/share/man/man? 17M /usr/share/man/man1 2.5M /usr/share/man/man2 40M /usr/share/man/man3 640K /usr/share/man/man4 2.2M /usr/share/man/man5 16K /usr/share/man/man6 1016K /usr/share/man/man7 4.2M /usr/share/man/man8 8.0K /usr/share/man/man9 684K /usr/share/man/mann Total 82M Using bzip2: du -sh /usr/share/man/man? 16M /usr/share/man/man1 2.5M /usr/share/man/man2 40M /usr/share/man/man3 588K /usr/share/man/man4 2.1M /usr/share/man/man5 16K /usr/share/man/man6 976K /usr/share/man/man7 4.2M /usr/share/man/man8 8.0K /usr/share/man/man9 680K /usr/share/man/mann Total 81M One thing that skews the results is that some files were not compressed with bzip2 because they were symlinked. -Steve Grubb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
