NT Workstation duplication

[robert at vps.co.za]

Compared to the amount of data on the drive? I sounds good to compress a
600 mb partition to 300 mb... But what if there is only 400 mb's of data
on the drive... Then it is bad compression..

Robert Sandilands

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Seth Vidal wrote:

> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:58:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
> To: robert at vps.co.za
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Subject: RE: NT Workstation duplication
> 
> > Very badly. You have to take a harddisk and do something like overwrite
> > the disk with zero's to make sure that all the previous information is not
> > there that will foul your compression ratio's.  
> hmm not true really.
> I have a 600mb partition that I dd from the device and it compresses (gzip
> -9) down to 350mb
> 
> -sv
> 
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