-- 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

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