SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives Learn more →
Compsize Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to compsize
-
-
AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
-
btrfdeck
Discontinued This repo will get you from using ext4 on your Steam Deck's microSD card, to btrfs.
-
-
-
-
zfs-dkms-aur-pkg
NOTE: Use this patch at your own risk. Testing a patch for the zfs-dkms Arch Linux AUR package
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better compsize alternative or higher similarity.
compsize discussion
compsize reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of compsize.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-26.
-
BTRFS Transparent Compression
The tool compsize can give you info about the compression state of your data. For example:
-
Is anyone else having problems with the zfs AUR packages? Specifically, zfs-dkms?
The obvious example is the Raid5/Raid6 implementation which is officially not recommended for current use; though that's not something I would use anyways. But I've also found that stuff like listing the compression ratio for volumes requires a separate program, unlike zfs where it's built-in.
- compsize: btrfs: find compression type/ratio on a file or set of files
-
Space allocation
If you want to diagnose where you think there may be space used up that you don't quite understand, then btrfs fi du and third party tools btdu and compsize are useful.
-
Bringing Bcachefs to Linux Mainline
I'm going to add my N=1 anecdata if no one minds:
I've been running full Btrfs on my workstation since December 2021 with 0 issues (kernel 5.10). It survived multiple hard reboots and power offs, Ryzen 5000 CPUs seems to lose power every now and then on Linux (it's a known issue for years now that no one has figured out yet).
Having compression is great. compsize reports I've saved 33GB on my /home subvolume so far (https://github.com/kilobyte/compsize). I don't use snapshots, I just backup the whole thing.
Obviously this doesn't mean that in the future Btrfs won't eat my data, but so far it hasn't and I'm happy.
- Using BTRFS compression on my Steam Deck, defragging and compsize
-
Adding options to fstab?
You can also use this tool to find out what the compression ratio of the data is ;).
- ZFS 0.8.6 doesn't boot with 5.10 kernel on Debian Sid
-
A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 7 Oct 2026
Stats
Basic compsize repo stats
8
415
3.0
almost 3 years ago
kilobyte/compsize is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of compsize is C.
Sponsored
Monitoring that respects your time & budget
APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
www.appsignal.com