On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Jesse Peterson wrote:
> If you happen to be preparing a fresh OS it might be useful to have a
> disk zero feature. Say "zero wd0" (or wd0e, or any other partition)
> so that you may start a disk with zero'd blocks and install your OS
> over that for smaller images. It's easy enough to do by simply
> issuing dd manually, but a shortcut might be handy and it saves you
> from having to do it from your actual OS.

That would require g4u to have knowledge of the "OS" file system.
It's easier to leave that to the OS-side, see 
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#shrinkimg


  - Hubert

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