[CentOS-virt] compress raw image

Thu Aug 4 14:35:20 UTC 2011
Rainer Traut <tr.ml at gmx.de>

Hi,

I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter.
Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of 
tools overwriting unused space with zeros. Is this a good idea?

It's an W2k8 image/NTFS.

Thx
Rainer