```sh $ mincconvert -2 original_labels.mnc compressed_labels.mnc $ ls -lh -rw-r--r-- 1 gdevenyi gdevenyi 9.0M 2020-09-25 08:31 original_labels.mnc -rw-rw-r-- 1 gdevenyi gdevenyi 45K 2020-09-25 10:52 compressed_labels.mnc ``` This may be pyminc's issue, I haven't checked yet.