"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: >It would be a very nice thing to have a flag to e2fsck, presumably -z, >to zero out any unused data blocks, inodes and so on. The goal is to >minimize the amount of space required after compressing a virtual disk >image or similar, and to make sure any non-data isn't lying around. I wrote a separate utility, zerofree[1], that zeroes out free blocks. Ron -- [1] http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
