On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, John F Davis wrote: > Hello > > i.e. you dd a 1 gb drive, you need 1 gb to store the image. Even if > the drive only has 20MB's of files stored on it. With tar, it will > backup only 20MB's and then with compression you might only need > 10MB's of disk space to store the image and not a whopping 1 GB.
With dd, you can always pipe the output to gzip to get compression. This is the power of Unix-style stdin/stdout ! :) --Jeremy -- My New Year's Resolution is 800x600.
