On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 01:59 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 9/3/19 11:32 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > What is the purpose of this exercise? > > > I have a bootable Fedora 64 GB flash drive. I use it > to troubleshoot customers' computers -- mostly Windows. > Windows loved to eat these sticks. (I have had great > luck switching to a Samsung stick.) > > I have previously used dd to backup these sticks and > reverse dd when they go corrupted. But this one is on > the large side. So I was looking for some compression The point of Eyal's method is to ensure that all the free space on the drive is filled with zeroes, thus improving the compression. Otherwise you are just uselessly compressing junk. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
