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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:22:27 +0000
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
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Subject: Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:09:30 +0100
"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:

> memstick.img wastes 7% with 2K blocks of nulls.

Could this be due to using UFS1 instead of UFS2?

On a related note, at some point the release scripts should be updated
to use gpart instead of fdisk/bsdlabel.

-- 
Bruce Cran