[conspire] (forw) Re: (forw) Re: VirtualBox

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Carl Myers (cmyers at cmyers.org):

> > BTW, after reducing the partition size, I did a backup using live
> > Linux on USB.  First `dd if=/dev/zero ...` to write big files of all
> > 0's.  Next pipe the entire partition through gzip.  The result was a
> > file of about 45 GB.
> 
> This is well after the fact, but I just wanted to say that this never
> occurred to me, and is a brilliant way to make sure the empty space is
> highly compressible.

Isn't it just?  It's an old trick, but a good one.