I'm not sure what the differences are between them but what I'm looking for, BTRFS calls "transparent file compression". I want the files to be compressed when added to the device but still fully accessible as if they aren't. As I stated in my post, BTRFS supports this and I was able to set it up. I was told by multiple users that F2FS also supports this but if it does, it's not working for me.
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I've gotten BTRFS to work and I'm going to use that for most of my devices. I'm not sure if I'm going to use ZFS though, the documentation that I was given for how to use it seems to be written from the perspective of someone who already knows how the it works and not from the perspective of someone who doesn't, so I'm very confused by it.
I'd like to get F2FS working on one of my devices though, but the commands needed to enable compression don't seem to be working for me and I'm not getting any error messages so I have no idea how to fix it.
Is it read-only, or does it write the files at some point?
I apparently already have it installed but mkfs still thinks that zfs isn't available. Am I supposed to use something else?
I don't need it for my OS, I have a full 512 GB hard drive for my Linux Mint installation. I need this for specifically running games on old storage devices that hold less than 32 GB and have terrible read and write speeds.
I used a folder full of smaller files and it still isn't compressing them. I've tried everything I can find or was told to do with f2fs but I cannot for the life of me, get files to compress. Btrfs works and files are compressing but it takes up so much space on the sd card.
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.
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.
I read the page you linked to but I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with it. If it's talking about using the "mount" command, I've already used that and even though I specifically enabled zstd as the compression method, files aren't being compressed. I know this because I'm using a file that's slightly larger than the free space but it's still giving errors about not having enough space.
I actually figure out the problem, I was actually supposed to just enable compression and then use the command when mounting. Only problem is, it's not compressing the files even though I mounted it with zstd enabled. I know this because I’m using a file that’s slightly larger than the free space but it’s still giving errors about not having enough space.
I figured out what I did wrong but now I'm getting a different error message. It's saying "Error: Wrong features compress_algorithm=zstd" even though the page I was given says it should be possible. Any ideas on what I should do to fix that?
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I'm trying to run VirtualBox in Linux Mint but I keep getting an error message about Kernel drivers.
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I tried looking into this myself but I couldn't really find much about this error. The only solutions I could find didn't work for me. The first one was to use mokutil but at the point where I was supposed to run sudo mokutil --import MOK.der it gives me the error message "Failed to get file status, MOK.der" even though I did everything it told me to do. The other one was to disable secure boot and then run sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig' but even though it looked like it worked, I'm still getting the error message. I have re-enabled secure boot, so you don't have to worry about that.
Is there something else I can try or does VirtualBox not work in Linux Mint for some reason?
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I don't remember exactly what I said but I did rewrite my post a little bit ago, it probably wont change your question though. Basically, what I meant was that I wanted to be able to run the most games from each device. Not as in hold the most games at a time, but more so hold a bigger game than it previously could while also being able to potentially load all games faster just in general. It just so happens that compression is capable of both in the right context, and in a way, it would also prolong the longevity of the devices as well, even if that's not my main intention.
I know that BTRFS can do this as it's specified here and that works for me. But I was also told that F2FS could do this as well and I was linked to here. BTRFS is fine for most of my devices but there's one device in particular that doesn't have much space left when it's formatted for BTRFS and therefor I'd like to get the compression in F2FS working if possible. Although, if I did get the compression in F2FS working correctly (assuming I wasn't lied to), that's probably what I'm going to end up using for most of my devices since most of them are flash storage devices.