On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:11:02PM -0400, Warren Melnick wrote:
> Nice email. My email client automatically responds in whatever the original
> was.
>
> Technically dd is a great way to do it. More specifically you would want to
> pipe dd to bzip2 or something like that. Anything else is likely to not
> truly be a image, but rather just a backup. If that is what you want, then
> use tar and bzip2. If you want to image to be as small as possible, try
> finding a utility (or writing one) that will zero out the unused space (ie
> cat /dev/zero > /dummyfile; rm /dummyfile) so that the empty space will
Actually you may need to do the following:
cat /dev/zero > /dummyfile
sync
rm /dummyfile
Otherwise it may not really get cleared out on the drive.
Chuck
> compress as much as possible.
>
> W
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