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Re: Is there a Linux ghost?
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>, "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Is there a Linux ghost?
- From: Gavrie Philipson <gavrie+linux-il(at-nospam)netmor.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:07:30 +0300
- Cc: Ori Hanegby <ori(at-nospam)exanet.com>, "'Daniel Feiglin'" <dilogsys(at-nospam)inter.net.il>, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 13:01 pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Is this image expected to be filled with "blanks" and compress well? If
> so, put gzip/bzip2 somewhere in the pipe.
>
> Dislaimer: never tried it.
I have, and it can make a dramatic difference if there a blank areas.
I setup such a system with dd once, and a Windows disk image of around 1GB
compressed to around 300MB. After filling the unused space on the Windows
partition with zeroes, this same partition compressed to around 100MB.
Gavrie.
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Gavrie Philipson
Netmor Ltd.
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