Diminished Disk Space after running file encryption

Mon Jul 21 17:59:24 2003

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On Sunday 20 July 2003 13:00, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> a swap partition won't change size and
> it is optimized for swapping

(Just FYI - with newest 2.5/2.6 krnels, swap files are supposed to be as fa=
st=20
as a swap partition. No personal experience, though.)

> or you
> can zip the file before encrypting it.

Not sure this makes a difference, since gpg internally zips the data before=
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encrypting it. (Of course, if  the zip algorightm is the memory hog here,=20
zipping the file manually and then encrypting it without the gpg-internal z=
ip=20
could make a difference.)

cheers
=2D- vbi

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