On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Hubert Feyrer wrote: > 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
Hrm.. I think I wasn't being clear. This action would be before an OS is installed - so that it may be installed "over" a zero'ed-out disk so that you wouldn't have to do OS-specific free-space zeroing. Essentially "zero" would be a shell script: #!/bin/sh dd if=/dev/zero of=$1 bs=1m That's all ;) Thanks, - Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
