Hello. Andreas Dilger wrote: > Why would you fill the buffer with 0xff instead of 0? > In fact no such program is needed, just "dd if=/dev/zero of=/{fs}/tmp" > and then delete the file. > To avoid that the /{fs}/tmp is created as a sparse file. I want to clear not only not-in-use blocks but also in-use blocks, while keeping files in /{fs}/tmp intact. Regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html