Bug#93895: O: perforate -- Utilities to save disk space
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of perforate, Heiko Schlittermann
<heiko@lotte.sax.de>, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I
orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please
take it -- retitle this bug from 'O:' to 'ITA:', fix the outstanding
bugs and upload a new version with your name in the Maintainer: field
and a
* New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug)
in the changelog so this bug is closed.
Some information about this package:
Package: perforate
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 32
Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.0-8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/utils/perforate_1.0-8.deb
Size: 15932
MD5sum: 538a64e07295ab5845512a8f3d63b0e7
Description: Utilities to save disk space
GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space
by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating
disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make
holes in existing files.
.
Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk
(finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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