-- Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > > Question: why fill all unused blocks with zeros? > > BTW, thanks for the tip; I think I'll use this. > > Because 0s [gz]zips best! If you have trash in the unused blocks they > will > needlessly take space in the .gz ... Duh...<slaps forehead> It wasn't until I thought about it that I realized that the _whole_ partition would be compressed into one file. I had just assumed that only the files would be compressed. :Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/