Other Help Topics :: reducing iso size

I know we all want to keep below the 50Meg limit, and I was wondering what people have tried to make that happen. I had two thoughts.

The first was to try freedups, which reduced the 0.9.2 iso by 97K. Not a lot, but hey, every little bit counts.

My second thought was to re-order the files that get fed into create_compressed_fs. That way, there would be a better chance that a 64K block would be all text or all uncompressable. I'm not sure how to change the order that files are saved into the iso. I've read that iso's have a standard (files in alphabetical order), but do compressed file systems need that restriction?

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