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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Given that the main disk image is 1.5GB but the snapshots are only
>>> 300MB each, I figured it was doing some sort of compression.
>>
>> No, it's just keeping a list of sectors you've ever written anything to.
>
> I assumed that's what the main image file was doing also.
It depends how you configure things.
> Linux has a way to zero unused disk blocks?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/xyzzy bs=1M count=... ; rm /xyzzy
> (I'm not surprised that this doesn't make VMware release those blocks,
> however... Should make the file more compressible though.)
It does.
> I dislike having to "register" to get my hands on supposedly "free"
> software.
There's an easy cure for that. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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much longer being almost empty than almost full.
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