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Dwedit · Joined: 14 Dec 2012 Posts: 2

I have my C: drive configured to automatically compress all files as they are created in the root directory. NTFS-3G appears to honor that, and will compress files it creates.

I was using Puppy Linux, doing all the initial setup stuff, and finally logged off and went to save the persistence file.
The next time I booted, I was getting all kinds of IO errors about bad blocks in the Slackosave file, and it didn't proceed very far into the boot sequence, so I rebooted with Alt+Ctrl+Del. I figured that probably had to do with the file being compressed.

I booted to Windows, and turned off compression for the Slackosave file, then Puppy booted fine after that.

I was checking the NTFS-3G documentation, and it looks like there are ways to mount the drive that disable creating compressed files, maybe you should use something like that.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2621 Location: Earth

Dwedit · Joined: 14 Dec 2012 Posts: 2

Sorry for an extremely late reply...

The term "compressed drive" is a very misleading term in Windows. It's just like setting the "compress this" flag in any other directory, except it applies to the root directory. Whenever the flag is set, any newly created files become compressed, and newly created directories have the "compress this" flag set.
So it doesn't matter whether that flag was set when formatting the drive, or it was set at a later time.

In my case, it was set at a later time. The drive contains a mixture of compressed and non-compressed files.

Anyway, I'm booting Puppy off my C:\ drive using grub4dos's grldr. Works great!

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2621 Location: Earth

This is wider than SLACKO. See here

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