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