On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:00 AM Francisco Tissera audiogamer2004@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.