[CentOS-virt] compress raw image

2011-08-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter. Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of tools overwriting unused space with zeros. Is this a good idea? It's an W2k8 image/NTFS. Thx Rainer ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] compress raw image

2011-08-04 Thread Nehemiah Dacres
its cool as long as you use a lossless compression format like bz2 On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter. Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of tools overwriting unused