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Old 02-14-2006, 12:18 PM
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Well, 40-50GB might be overdoing it a bit, but the extras space won't hurt.

A sparse image will only "grow" to store the data inside it, plus space for overhead. It's not compressed, but the "sparse" part means that the free space isn't in there...
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