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I didn't see tools like mkcdrec, mondo or proprietary tools like plate spin mentioned. <br><br>I'm a hardcore grub command line guy so I'm not likely to use one of them except if I have lots of vms to create. <br><br>The more user friendly tools may be helpful for people not comfortable with drive partitioning math. <br></font></p>
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Thanks for all this. Worthy of a blog post for sure, so all can know.<br><br>On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Chris Frey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>></span> wrote<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">9) Insert filesystem into a single disk<br>
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# this will take a while, but preserves sparseness<br>
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