Question

Explain in brief disk compression.

Answer 1

Disk compression. A type of data compression that works by storing compressed versions of files on the hard disk. A disk compression utility sits between the operating system and the disk drive. ... Because all applications access files through the operating system, disk compression utilities work with all applications.

Answer 2

Disk compression:

1. Disk compression is a method through which information gets compressed to store in a hard disk. Disk compression can be provided by any utility software or we can do disk compression online. We can transfer larger data or information through the disk compression.
2. It is performed by the disk compression utility which compresses the size of the file whenever we want to save any file in the system. In this way, the system can hold or store large information.