testCleaning House
For quite a while I have been working on cleaning up all of the junk on my computer. One of my big things has been changing all archives, aside from tar.gz and tar.bz, over to 7z. I have saved a considerable amount of space. Just the other week I decompressed a number of zip files (5.55gb zipped) and compressed them into 7z format (4.77gb) saving me 800mb. These are things I do not use very often so it is not really an inconvenience to have to decompress them.
I have been considering a different way to handle large file sets without zipping them. This is mainly for things I do use a lot, for example text I have saved from the internet such as manuals, books, etc. My idea is to place them in an ISO and then I can mount the ISO or keep it mounted at all times. I have done this with my font collection so I could move it or defragment without having to handle 4000 files. I think there is even a program and possibly an extension for Daemon tools that will mount the ISO on double click. If I can find a program that will do that I will consider putting HTML books in ISO form instead of compressing them, this would however not help me on space.
Let me know what your methods have been aside from burning them to disc.
