submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

I am aware of that, but even with it there's still a decent amount of waste.

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