On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:00 AM Francisco Tissera
<audiogamer2004(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello there,
So, let's see if I got it right: if i put in / as a path, it should
compress the entire harddrive right?
I think so, and it'll just complain about /boot because it's not Btrfs
(at least not by default). If your /boot is Btrfs, it's ok because
GRUB supports it.
If not, how should I go about doing that? I don't think it would
be a
good idea to compress the /boot directory, cause the docs don't
recommend it, but how would I go about compressing the entire root
partition with all the file and such?
The path /dev/sda gives me an error.
That's a /dev node not a path to a directory or file. But it's a valid
point in that there might be some noise whenever it touches the pseudo
file systems like /dev, /sys, /run, /proc which are not on Btrfs
either. Still, it should just skip those (with some noise) and
continue on. If not then I've got an idea for a work around.
--
Chris Murphy