Feature request: compression estimate support

dundee / gdu

Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

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Feature request: compression estimate support #294

Open axet opened 7 months ago

axet commented 7 months ago

Hello!

Filesystems with compression can compress data. Using system tools it is possible to see compression rate for file/folder.

Would be nice to have two optional file sizes original and compressed to see in gdu

For example to see how good folder is compressed you have to run following commmand on btrfs:

sudo compsize -x /usr

xkix commented 6 months ago

Hi, the same applies to Windows; you can enable compression at the directory level. It would be practical to see the compressed size as well. Thx for the tool!

rhysperry111 commented 6 days ago

This would definitely be a useful feature. On my system (which uses btrfs) I regularly deal with files with a compression ratio of 10:1 and higher and they end up absolutely swamping everything else in gdu despite taking up very little actual space.