Re: Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

[Niki Kovacs <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg a écrit :
> 
> Niki,
> 
> I suggest you look at partimage.
> G4U seems similar, but partimage doesn't write free blocks to the 
> images, so you don't get these huge files.
> It's worked well for me.
> It's in rpmforge.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just took a look at it. But I think G4U 
will suit me better, since I'm using this machine to test all kinds of 
exotic systems. The partimage documentation states "some problems" with 
things like NTFS.

But this could come in handy for backups...

Cheers,

Niki
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