4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
2:16 a.m.
At 07:50 PM 1/3/2007, you wrote:
First fill the empty space on it with zeros, remove the
file with the
zeros,
What? And potentially erase all those yet un-deleted files? :-)
unmount it, then dd the whole disk, and pipe it to
gzip.
And with the size and price of hard drives today, why bother with compression?
Especially if you want to mount the image in an emulator.
- John