Package zerofree: Information
Source package: zerofree
Version: 1.0.3-alt1
Build time: Jun 17, 2020, 04:57 PM
Category: File tools
Report package bugHome page: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/
License: GPLv2
Summary: Utility to force unused ext2 inodes and blocks to zero
Description:
zerofree is a utility to set unused filesystem inodes and blocks of an ext2 filesystem to zero. This can improve the compressibility and privacy of an ext2 filesystem. This tool was inspired by the ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch described in a Linux kernel mailing list thread. This package also includes the sparsify utility which will scan all files in an ext2 filesystem and ensure that they are maximally sparse. See http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html for more info. WARNING: The filesystem to be processed should be unmounted or mounted read-only. The tool tries to check this before running, but you should be careful.
Maintainer: Michael Shigorin
Last changed
Aug. 10, 2012 Michael Shigorin 1.0.3-alt1
- dropped patch (merged upstream) - minor spec cleanup
Aug. 9, 2012 Michael Shigorin 1.0.2-alt1
- initial build for ALT Linux Sisyphus + spec based on fedora and opensuse packages + patch based on opensuse's one + manpage from debian
Feb. 8, 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.1-8
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild