[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Notification from Dropbox

[Barry Kauler]

On 4/20/12, Barry Kauler <bkauler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I conducted an experiment, I did the "dd if=/dev/zero of=dummyfile"
>> thing on both of the partitions, then made another image. using lzma,
>> with default compression-level (6), the size of the file is 931MB -- a
>> considerable reduction.
>
> One possible problem though. My image, uncompressed, is 3.747 GiB
> (4023386112 bytes), whereas the one from Tom is 3.733 GiB (4008706048
> bytes).
>
> So, it would seem that my SD card is slightly bigger. It would be
> better if the size reduction operation is performed on the smaller SD
> card.

But, as I wrote Tom's image to my bigger SD card, I could have used dd
to read back that exact same size (4008706048 bytes) couldn't I?

Regards,
Barry Kauler