Knoppix file size limit?

[Michael Hipp]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> perhaps:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -c >/mnt/public/hddimage.iso.gz
> 
> After all, I bet lots of the disk is empty and thus would benefit from
> compression.
> 
> You were not planning on accessing the saved image, except to possibly
> put it back with:
> 
> 	gzcat /mnt/public/hddimage.iso.gz | dd of=/dev/hda
> 
> Were you?

That's a good thought, thanks. But I'd also like to hold the option to 
mount the iso on the host for access to individual files if needed. 
Course I could always just unzip the image on the host.

Might be worth a try just to see how small the .gz would end up.

(Phooey! SimplyMEPIS died at the same spot. Looks like your idea is the 
next thing to try.)

Michael