Re: [Clonezilla-live] compression percentage

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Zoltan,

On 2010年06月01日 17:36, Zoltan Kerenyi Nagy wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> Thanks for replying me pretty fast!
> I'll wait that 4 hours to see how big that image will be.
> And what do you say of the splitting? Is it worth to have tha 
> clonezilla slipt for intasnce 2 giga datas or smaller, or should I 
> give a big number for just 1 image file? Which is the best? Do you 
> suggest many small splits or just one for one cloning procedure?
If your file system supports large file size (e.g. > 4 GB, not the FAT16 
or FAT32 case), I suggest it's easier to have a single file only, i.e. 
not to split the image file. This can reduce the error chance created by 
splitting program. :)

Steven.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zoltan
> Hungary
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Steven Shiau <st...@nc... 
> <mailto:st...@nc...>> wrote:
>
>     Besides the compression program, the compression ratio really
>     depends on the data you have.
>     Would it worth to use bzip2? Maybe... Only you can judge that.
>     If you want to distribute that to many many people, bzip2, xz...
>     are worthy.
>     My 2 cents.
>
>     Steven.
>
>
>     On 2010年06月01日 14:55, Zoltan Kerenyi Nagy wrote:
>>     Hi!
>>
>>     I have a 13 gig data. Which compression would be the best for
>>     that. bzip2 takes 4 hours, would it worth the time to wait? How
>>     many percentage can be achieved by the various compression methods.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Zoltan
>>
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