[Wlug] interesting backups problem

[Aaron Haviland]

Eric Stein wrote, on Feb 18, 2007 at 20:18 EST:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an interesting issue with disk usage.  I have a hard disk image 
> (from dd) stored on a server, and it needs to be compressed it to make 
> room for other data.  The image is 160 GB, but I only have 30 GB of free 
> space to work with; the data isn't compressible enough to fit in 30 GB 
> in the meantime.  I don't need the image right now and having only a 
> compressed copy is perfectly fine.  How can I compress the image while 
> simultaneously deleting the old data?  I can think of a way to do it 
> using perl, dd, and some other tools, but I'd much prefer to do it the 
> "right" way if there is one.

Is the image completely full or is there free space within the image?
i.e., might you be able to resize it smaller with ext2resize or
somesuch?

-- 
Aaron
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