Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >> Ok, so you really want to zero the unused blocks in-place, and e2image >> writing out a new sparsified image isn't a ton of help. >> >> The tool does that, I guess - but only on an unmounted or RO-mounted >> filesystem, right? (plus I'd triple-check that it's doing things >> correctly, opening a block device and splatting zeros around, one hopes >> that it is!) > >That is WAY to scary for me on a mounted filesystem. It is racy if the >blocks become allocated. The 1.0.0 version of the zerofree utility only worked on unmounted filesystems, but then someone suggested that it should be safe on a read-only mount. Is that not so? Ron _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
