Differences between current version and predecessor to the previous major change of sparseify.

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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 9:00:30 by CyberLeo
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, 8 September 2009 5:25:07 by CyberLeo Revert
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-Describe [sparseify] here.  
-  
 !ext2/ext3 
 * [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/sparsify.html] 
  
 !fat12/fat16/fat32 
+* Nothing yet.  
  
 !ntfs 
 * $Bitmap contains a bitmap covering the entire block device, including metadata and special files. 
 * $MFT contains block size, for computing bitmap offsets. This is usually 4096, for compatibility with stream compression, but it can be different. 
 * ntfsprogs ([http://www.linux-ntfs.org]) comes in handy: ntfsinfo --mft <dev> for block size, ntfscat <dev> \$Bitmap for bitmap 
 * This has to be the easiest of all, ironically. 
  
 !ffs/ufs/ufs2 
+* Nothing yet.  

current version

ext2/ext3

fat12/fat16/fat32

  • Nothing yet.

ntfs

  • $Bitmap contains a bitmap covering the entire block device, including metadata and special files.
  • $MFT contains block size, for computing bitmap offsets. This is usually 4096, for compatibility with stream compression, but it can be different.
  • ntfsprogs (http://www.linux-ntfs.org) comes in handy: ntfsinfo --mft <dev> for block size, ntfscat <dev> \$Bitmap for bitmap
  • This has to be the easiest of all, ironically.

ffs/ufs/ufs2

  • Nothing yet.