Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-13 Thread Oliver Fromme
Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Michael Eubanks wrote: Paul Schenkeveld wrote: What about: # dd /dev/zero BIG_EMPTY_FILE bs=128k # rm BIG_EMPTY_FILE Comes close to what you want, only a couple of indirect blocks are not zeroed this way but the majority of unused

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-13 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:02:55PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Michael Eubanks wrote: Paul Schenkeveld wrote: What about: # dd /dev/zero BIG_EMPTY_FILE bs=128k # rm BIG_EMPTY_FILE Comes close to what you want, only a couple of

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Eubanks
Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:11:36AM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: --- Paul Schenkeveld wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:28:01PM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: Hello all, I am updating a system that has been around for some time

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:28:01PM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: Hello all, I am updating a system that has been around for some time now. I would like to make a compressed disk image after the final setup is complete, although, I'm guessing that the unused blocks will not allow me to

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-08 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Michael Eubanks wrote: Hello all, I am updating a system that has been around for some time now. I would like to make a compressed disk image after the final setup is complete, although, I'm guessing that the unused blocks will not allow me to compress the image as well as I could with a

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-08 Thread Michael Eubanks
--- Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:28:01PM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: Hello all, I am updating a system that has been around for some time now. I would like to make a compressed disk image after the final setup is complete, although, I'm

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:11:36AM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: --- Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:28:01PM -0700, Michael Eubanks wrote: Hello all, I am updating a system that has been around for some time now. I would like to make a