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Re: Is there a Linux ghost?



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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