On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368
MiB
gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to
avoid.
... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the file non-sparse. I fixed it with
cp --sparse always, but this is definitely a show stopper.
Well... making it non-sparse is kinda the point. The parts that "--
sparse" removes are a subset of the parts that gzip will give maximum
compression to.
Again, when I read the wiki instructions for using the images, it
pretty much assumes that the image was produced with dd and gzip as I
have described.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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Rick
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