On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote:A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiBgziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to avoid.... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the file non-sparse. I fixed it with cp --sparse always, but this is definitely a show stopper.
Well... making it non-sparse is kinda the point. The parts that "-- sparse" removes are a subset of the parts that gzip will give maximum compression to.
Again, when I read the wiki instructions for using the images, it pretty much assumes that the image was produced with dd and gzip as I have described.
Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
HTH Rick