linux-ext4 - Re: Feature request: e2fsck -z

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Message-Id: <201108100754.p7A7ss3n016775@tiffany.internal.tigress.co.uk>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:54:53 +0100
From:	Ron Yorston <rmy@...ress.co.uk>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: Feature request: e2fsck -z

"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
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[1] http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/
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