Michael Setzer II

Changed build from initrd to initramfs since initrd is being dropped in 1/2027. (Might have been in 0.69) Current kernels are 6.19.14 and 7.0.1 . Have made changes with compression, converted the bz2 option to use zstd. Long ago tried the bz2, and it took 18 times longer than lzop, Have done a few test, and in some test on partitions, difference was 1% faster and 2% smaller with zstd (/boot mostly already compressed files). Another partition gave a time difference of only 8 second (total 377) but...

Quick note on status of next update.

Has new kernel. File system changed from initrd to initramfs since initrd is scheduled from removal 1/2027? In addition to syslinux and grub4dos images that can be raw written to USB flash, Also has the keernal and initramfs.lzma that can be added to grub boot loading.

Uploaded 0.69 Relese Image and Source.

Getting ready to put a relase out with this changes so far.

On 12 Nov 2025 at 12:55, Kevin Eisinger wrote: To: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net From: "Kevin Eisinger" ketest@users.sourceforge.net Send reply to: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net Subject: [g4l:discussion] Undelete .img files from NTFS External SSD Date sent: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:55:56 -0000 Michael, thanks for the input. When backing up with G4L we set the file name with the extension .img. HexEdit of a G4L backup file has the 1st 4...

On 11 Nov 2025 at 19:46, Kevin Eisinger wrote: To: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net From: "Kevin Eisinger" ketest@users.sourceforge.net Send reply to: "[g4l:discussion] " 408763@discussion.g4l.p.re.sourceforge.net Subject: [g4l:discussion] Undelete .img files from NTFS External SSD Date sent: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:46:55 -0000 I am looking for a way to undelete some .img files that were created with G4L using LZOP compression. So far I have tried, on Linux PhotoRec - did...

Recall a very long time ago, Did an install of Fedora Core 3, (current version is 41) on an 80G drive that had had windos 95 I believe. Did an image and it created a 24G image. Then run the clean on disk, and redid image and it was only just over 2G. So clearing out the unused sectors makes a huge difference. You can also try the NTFSCLONE option. It only backs up used data on NTFS partition, but is faster than doing a bit level copy. Only issue is that it only has the partition, so restoring woudl...