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Save Space with Gzip
Authored by: lullabud on Mar 04, '05 02:00:20PM
If you're limited on local space you can use a pipe to gzip instead of the "of=" option.
dd bs=512 if=/dev/rdisk2s3 conv=noerror,sync | gzip -9 > foo.dmg.gz


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