Re: [Qemu-devel] Wipe patch

[Brad Campbell]

ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:

> I use the patch to reduce image size. I use a RIP (repair is possible)
> ISO image to boot a small Linux system where I can issue ntfswipe (or
> any other wipe command). Than I can recompress image with qemu-img.

Yes, I do similar at the moment.

I just boot the windows guest session and use eraser or winhex to erase free space and then 
recompress with qemu-img.

For ext2/3 I use a kernel and utility initramfs I knocked up and then run zerofree on the partition. 
That works nicely.

I'll investigate ntfswipe as that sounds like it might help me make a fully automated re-compression 
utility.

Brad
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