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6. Advanced optimizing
Before this, continue installing your main partition. Configure Mail, copy some things like Colloquy, Skype and some other programs you use more often. But no too big programs like iLife or something like that, the image should still be so small that it's easy to backup. My main partition which was prepared for backup had already some games, an Amiga emulator, ScummVM, CrossOver, Parallels, about 500 MB mails and so on, but it still it needed only 8,7 GB on disk and less than 3,6 GB as an image.
If your image is ready for backing up, you can use the following optimizing methods: First use iDefrag or another defragmenting prog that moves all blocks to the beginning of the harddisk. Then use Disk Utility and use 'Erase free space' with the Zero Out function. With this method the free blocks can be crunched more effective. If you have activated the Disk Utility's hidden features and use the bzip2 compression it will even be more effective.
2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.
My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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