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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by nix23 on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:47AM (#29589560)
I know that trick and it is NOT working with dev/zero on ZFS (compression), use dev/urandom instead.
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Re:Defrag Like It's 1993 by willis936 on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:26AM (#29594363)
I know you're joking, but if any layreader comes across this: random data does not compress.
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