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
  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    21·
    7 months ago

    I remember when I used to keep my fully configured distros below 700MB so I could just dump it all to a CD as a backup. Good days.