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rfunk at 06:06pm on 15/02/2007
rfunk at 06:06pm on 15/02/2007Remember when Deep Thought was asked the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything?
And he/it said "I'll have to think about it. For seven and a half million years." ?
Question, asked of my computer at 2:37pm today:
How large (in bytes) would a *compressed* image of my 120GB hard disk be?
sudo dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024k | gzip | wc -c
Over three and a half hours later, I don't have an answer yet.
(Maybe I should have told it to read from the disk in chunks larger than 1MB.)
At this point I'm starting to expect the answer, if I get one in my lifetime, to have a 42 in it.
Come to think of it, I think the uncompressed in-use space on the disk is around 40-42GB.
Update: 52GB (er, 52 GiB), seven hours.
And he/it said "I'll have to think about it. For seven and a half million years." ?
Question, asked of my computer at 2:37pm today:
How large (in bytes) would a *compressed* image of my 120GB hard disk be?
sudo dd if=/dev/hda bs=1024k | gzip | wc -c
Over three and a half hours later, I don't have an answer yet.
(Maybe I should have told it to read from the disk in chunks larger than 1MB.)
At this point I'm starting to expect the answer, if I get one in my lifetime, to have a 42 in it.
Come to think of it, I think the uncompressed in-use space on the disk is around 40-42GB.
Update: 52GB (er, 52 GiB), seven hours.
114473+1 records in 114473+1 records out 120034123776 bytes transferred in 25220.845963 seconds (4759322 bytes/sec) 55900979329 09:38 PM $
geeky
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