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[vovan]

i use  Panther 10.3.4

[lfroen]

Well, not really. Don't know how you gonna actually do it, but assuming that you use kind of disk level compression.

Panther 10.3.4

But thats mostly depends what kind of files you dloading - you can't compress thing twice (Shannon theorem).

On Linux ext2/3 tmp files are already in sparce mode anyway.

Generic advice - disk compression is useless, unless you have very unusual operating environment

[vovan]

well,the reason for the question was i use both platform for emule xp and mac.
My temp folder in windows is compressed and takes ~73gb physical space and 180gb uncompressed.
That's why i was wondering if i could compress temp folder on mac kind of the same way to fit it on 160 gb HDD.

[lfroen]

takes ~73gb physical space and 180gb uncompressed.

Well, 2.5 ratio is OK when we're talking about "any files" - without internal compression (like mpeg, jpeg, pdf, doc, xls, ppt and others have).

If you asking about "does it worth it" - you already have your answer: try and see.

If your question about "how to compress disk on Mac" - its clearly off-topic here.

[vovan]

i'd really appreciate if you could tell me where i can find about how to compress hdd on mac os x.
Thanks.

[Jacobo221]

you could ask at some Mac forums. I guess there must be some filesystem for Mac with compression, but that will make it very CPU expensive. I don't relly like HDD compression (I've experiencied it on Win many times). It might become especially CPU expensive in combination with aMule since it will have to continuosly recompress large files, since aMule can resume a download from any part of the file, not specifically from the begining or the end.

Greetings!