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btrfs: user space tool to force compression

DISCUSSION Matwey V. Kornilov 2 participants 2 messages Oct 2, 2015 Btrfs file system

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Hello,

Is there a way (and appropriate user space tool) to force compression of existing file? I mean there was directory with some content and then I set compression attribute (property) to it. How to force data recompression?

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Hello,

Is there a way (and appropriate user space tool) to force compression of existing file? I mean there was directory with some content and then I set compression attribute (property) to it. How to force data recompression?

btrfs fi defrag -c <file>

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