Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:57:03AM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > Hello Richard, > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. > > I'm happy to take zerofree. I *think* I've pressed the right buttons to give you the project ...

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

Hello Richard, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > If you wish to take it over, I can orphan it instead. I'm happy to take zerofree. Regards, Robert pgpCajlfkSZiz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ devel mailing list --

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

Rich, Thanks for packaging zerofree. It's been great to be able to install my own software without having to build it. Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >zerofree is a package that can take an ext2 (only?) filesystem, work >out what parts of the filesystem are not used, and either zero them or

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

Once upon a time, Robert Scheck said: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > > corrupts ext4 filesystems

Re: Intent to retire: zerofree

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There's also a more serious data safety issue: Although this probably > works OK for ext2 since that format is frozen in time, it probably > corrupts ext4 filesystems containing features that it doesn't know > about. > > It is for these reasons

Intent to retire: zerofree

zerofree is a package that can take an ext2 (only?) filesystem, work out what parts of the filesystem are not used, and either zero them or sparsify them. This was useful in about 2009 when I added it to Fedora. However nowadays it's more convenient to use the equivalent kernel functionality