I’ve been running out of disk space on my laptop. Multiple development environments, vmware images, my music collection, and especially my camera RAW originals take a heavy toll. Most data on a computer is already highly-compressed, but the whole idea behind RAW files is that they are not compressed — they represent the original image sensor data. So, here’s a one-liner I used for freeing up some disk space. (I have an Olympus camera, whose raw file format has the ORF extension.)<\/p>\n
Just using standard bzip compression reduces each file by about 50%. And, since I had 10 gigs of raw files, that translates into 5 gigs of space I’ve freed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been running out of disk space on my laptop. Multiple development environments, vmware images, my music collection, and especially my camera RAW originals take a heavy toll. Most data on a computer is already highly-compressed, but the whole idea behind RAW files is that they are not compressed — they represent the original image … Continue reading “Linux Tip: How to clear some room”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}find ~\/Documents\/images\/photos\/raw -name \"*.ORF\" | xargs -n 1 bzip2<\/code><\/p>\n