On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote: > > If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, > zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to > mind...) and it will all be compressed out. > > If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on > just how "random" the junk is. > > Does that help? A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiB gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to avoid. I'll look at Colenzilla, but just creating the live USB is a pain[1] and having to reboot each time I want to generate a new image is also not something I look forward to :( [1] http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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