Recommendations for lightweight Window Manager?
Jamon Camisso
jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 6 14:17:52 UTC 2009
waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 04:22:05PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote
>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>
>>> I got my shiny new toy (Acer AspireOne). Right now, I have Knoppix
>>> running "dd" to back up Vista in case I ever need it. I hope I don't.
>> You might like to check out 'ntfsclone' as an alternative to dd for this
>> purpose. dd will helpfully capture all the empty space for you.
>
> And bzip2 will helpfully compress the daylights out of it. Here are a
> couple of "ll" outputs. The first one is near the end of the bzip2
> creation, and the second one is after. Note that the bzip2 archive goes
> down by a factor of 24, from just under 240 gigs to just under 10 gigs.
> I didn't bother compressing the hidden "restore partition". I figure it
> probably has been compressed already.
How long did that take for bzip to chew through 240gb?
Jamon
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