Ghosting with Linux [x-adr][x-bayes]

[Garrett Goebel]

Brian Kelsay wrote:
> Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >
> > Things you could do to decrease the transfer time:
> > o defrag the drive
>
> Can you defrag a EXT2 or 3 partition? Or Zero out the free
> space for that matter.

You can defrag ext2 using a utility 'defrag' which was originally written
for ext... But you probably wouldn't want to. Since you can switch back and
forth between ext2/ext3, you could probably use it on ext3. You must or you
it would appear to follow that you wouldn't be able to find any partition
resizing utilities like 'parted'.

Zero'ing a parition is relatively easy:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/parition/mount/point/zerofile
rm /path/to/parition/mount/point/zerofile


> Never heard of lzop, I guess I should get out more.

Neither had I until I did a google search on: fastest compression speed
linux

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