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Brad Campbell wrote:
> While I'm here does anyone know of a simple program, either dos or linux
> based for wiping unused space on fat filesystems? The only ones I've
> found so far have been windows based.
For DOS and FAT16, I'm using Wipem. See
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>
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > Hi,
> > well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The
> aim is to be
> > able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When
> you wipe a
> > disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
> > allocate all space. Thi
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
On 02/08/06, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> Hi,
> well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
> able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
> disk the program fill disk with
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
I don't know if you mean just zeroing unused parts or reordering the
data and stuff like defragmentation. If you mean the former, there's a
universal method:
dd if=/dev/zero of=xxx; rm xxx
where xxx is a path to a new file on the filesystem, which must be
mounted. It
On 02/08/06, andrzej zaborowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 02/08/06, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > Hi,
> > well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
> > able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you w
On 02/08/06, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> Hi,
> well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
> able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
> disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image in
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
Hi,
well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
allocate all space. This just patch detect null byte
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
I use the patch to reduce image size. I use a RIP (repair is possible)
ISO image to boot a small Linux system where I can issue ntfswipe (or
any other wipe command). Than I can recompress image with qemu-img.
Yes, I do similar at the moment.
I just boot the win
>
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> >> This _looks_ like it would severely impact cpu load during a write.
> >> Have you done any testing to determine if this is likely
> to impact a
> >> normal usage scenario?
> >
> > Why would it? In most cases, the zero test would terminate quickly,
> > without acce
Avi Kivity wrote:
This _looks_ like it would severely impact cpu load during a write.
Have you done any testing to determine if this is likely to impact a
normal usage scenario?
Why would it? In most cases, the zero test would terminate quickly,
without accessing the entire cluster.
Good
Brad Campbell wrote:
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
Hi,
well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
allocate all space. This just
>
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > Hi,
> > well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The
> aim is to be
> > able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When
> you wipe a
> > disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
> > allocate all space. Thi
ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
Hi,
well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
allocate all space. This just patch detect null byte
Hi,
well, this is not a definitive patch but it works. The aim is to be
able to wipe the disk without allocating entire space. When you wipe a
disk the program fill disk with zero bytes so disk image increase to
allocate all space. This just patch detect null byte writes and do not
write all zero
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