[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:51:02PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> I thought maybe one of you could sponsor this package?

Winnie, please tell me if you find the time. Otherwise I'm willing to
sponsor this package.

> I also believe the virtualbox-ose-guest-utils should at least suggest  
> zerofree. Indeed, such a tool should be part of the guest additions from 
> the beginning.

The description says:

on which this file-system resides is a disk image. In this case,
depending on the type of disk image, a secondary utility may be able
to reduce the size of the disk image after zerofree has been

You might want to recommend "perforate" in this case, because it does
exactly this.

Michael
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