[TriLUG] linux/windoze Interoperability NOTE: 4 GB VFat filesizelimit

[Tomm Lorenzin]

I ghost (v9 and v2003) several systems onto either other partitions or
drives in the same system or LAN, or onto a 200GB USB2 peripheral HD
formatted as fat32.  I find that ghost does NOT "ghost" free space, but that
the number of ghost files and their file sizes of the ghost images varies
according to what file system is on the target drive. There's also a
selectable level of compression involved. 

If ghosting to fat32, for instance, I get the entire ghost of a 30% used
160GB drive as SIX 4GB files plus a small seventh.  That's 48GB used space
on a 160GB drive compressed down to a little over 24GB in seven files.

If I ghost the same drive to an ntfs partition - either local or on my LAN,
I get a SINGLE 24GB ghost image file.  In my experience, in NO case does
ghost "ghost" free space.

I gotta say... after having a helluva time with some symantec products -
notably NAV and I-security - GHOST has saved me tuchus more times than I
care to admit it needed salvation.


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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriLUG] linux/windoze Interoperability NOTE: 4 GB VFat
filesizelimit


their web site makes reference to not distinguishing between used and 
free space but rather backing up everything.

regards,

jim

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Glenn Hennessee wrote:

> Kevin Flanagan wrote:
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>> There is also ghost for Unix, http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
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> I downloaded this and am trying it out. I ghosted a windows xp system
> to a (windows) ftp server. The windows installation uses 3 GB of disk 
> space but the "ghost" image is 9 GB in size! Instead of getting 
> smaller, it got 3 times larger. I'm downloading it back down to 
> another machine that is identical to see if I can use it for imaging.
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> Has anyone else tried this and know why the ghost image is so large? 
> glenn
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