Bug#583870: inconsistencies in ext3 file systems

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Toni Müller wrote:

> I don't see -Q mentioned in the man page. You mean, I should backport
> the e2image from Wheezy (where it first seems to appear) to Etch (the
> affected system)? Any gotchas that I should be aware of?

Well, whatever's most convenient.  (That might be to just use "-r" ---
the only advantage of "-Q" is that it avoids wasting time writing long
blocks of zeroes that act as placeholders for data, which could speed
the compressor up.)