Hey guys! Just like i imagined doing it on a reiser4 with compression didn't yeld any compression. I ended up with a 1.6Gb VDI file :( Creating a new VDI and Moving the contents is probably the best solution.
For the records: I ended up with a 255G file full of zeroes on my 2GB virtual HD :) Reiser4 + CryptoCompress FTW! On 4/11/07, Antonio Augusto (Mancha) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aye! > This is probably the best way to do it! > Completely forgot about /dev/zero :) > > I'm doing that right now! But the Reiser4 is making it hard to fill > the HD, since all filesystem is compressed... So now i've a 40Gb file > and df says only 450Mb of space is being occupied... > Lets see how long it takes ;) > > But comming to think of it... Since everything is compressed maybe the > final think being written to the drive aren't zeros... > Ow well... lets see what happens :) > > On 4/11/07, Till Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Till Maas wrote: > > > > > I don't know, whether or not there is an application for this. But if you > > > > Another option, to get at least very much nullbytes on the partition would > > be: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/zerofile bs=8192 > > sync > > > > and wait till the partition is full. Then remove /path/to/zerofile. This is > > better done in a live cd enviroment as well. > > > > Regards, > > Till > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > > > -- > As coisas são como elas são porque é assim que as fizemos ser. > -- As coisas são como elas são porque é assim que as fizemos ser. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
