[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Notification from Dropbox

[Philip Hands]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:09:58 +0100, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 17:06, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> >> Weird. How big is the actual file? I would expect a reasonably
> >> minimalistic rootfs to compress down to < 150MB, which I wouldn't expect
> >> to get noticed.
> >
> > it's a dd image of a 4GB SD card
> 
>  did you clean the filesystem before doing the compress?
> 
>  if not, can i recommend that you either do a tar -cvzf of its
> contents or perhaps make a fresh 4gb empty partition and then cpio the
> files from one to the other, to minimise the amount of the disk image
> that will have garbage on it?
> 
>  then upload the result to the incoming directory on ftp.lkcl.net.
> i'll work out where to host it from there.

You're welcome to stick it on free if that helps.

Cheers, Phil.
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