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Re: RFC/RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems



On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>> Description: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems
>>  Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3
>>  file-system and fills them with zeroes. This is useful if the device 

I'd add "umounted or mounted read-only" somewhere.  It makes all the
difference: one can use zerofree for them, and dd for filesystems mounted
read-write.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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