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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2859)10/11/1998 6:27:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
DI compresses the files on the partition, needing no size for blank space. If I have a 1 gig partition with 400 megs of files, I can often do about 200 megs for the image file.



To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2859)10/11/1998 7:20:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith  Respond to of 14778
 
always using "low" compression, which saves me between 30-55% compared to the size of the original partitions.)
Is the size of the Image file based on the size of the partition or the files on the partition?

Zeuspaul



Sectors used in the parition. Ghost is dumb in this repsect.

Sean