Compression and Encryption functionality?

[lonnietc]

Compression and Encryption functionality?

[lonnietc]

@LTRData Thank you so very much for getting back to my questions so quickly and I think that these might be exactly what I am looking for since I really like ImDisk a lot and want to use it for a unique approach for the project.

Have a great day

[lonnietc]

Hello again,

On the related compression question and for the second use-case that I have in mind, I was thinking about being able to have a ramdisk that effectively starts at zero, or at least being very small, and dynamically grows in use which could then be saved as it grows.

Or perhaps, mounting an image and it would dynamically grow as items were put into the ramdisk after which it could be saved at the new size and dismounted to be mounted at a later time.

Just some thoughts that I had on this.

[LTRData]

If you are looking for mounting image files and not RAM disks, this is actually pretty easy. When you create a new image file you can use the sparse option:
imdisk -a -f C:\imagefile.img -s 40G -o sparse -m R: -p "/fs:ntfs /q /y"
This will create a 40 GB image file with sparse allocation that takes up almost no space at all from start, but the system allocates space for it as needed.

Regarding encryption, the same developer as developed ImDisk Toolkit has also developed an encryption layer for ImDisk:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/proxycrypt/