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zerofree package

zerofree 1.0.3-1 source package in Ubuntu

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zerofree (1.0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * Bug fix: "Typo in package description", thanks to
    Pascal De Vuyst (Closes: #698563).
  * Check against standards version 3.9.5.
  * Update control (maintainer address, VCS fields).

 -- Thibaut Paumard <email address hidden>  Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:10:29 +0200

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Uploaded by:
Thibaut Paumard
Uploaded to:
Sid
Original maintainer:
Thibaut Paumard
Architectures:
any
Section:
admin
Urgency:
Low Urgency

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zerofree_1.0.3-1.dsc 1.8 KiB 67d0058749ddd6310c22c93e138c377f80d267b2627c21597d338118aeedde3a
zerofree_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz 8.3 KiB 3acfda860be0f0ddcb5c982ff3b4475b1ee8cc35a90ae2a910e93261dbe0ccf6
zerofree_1.0.3-1.debian.tar.xz 5.0 KiB a627ab6fa63e42e50a6f1c3e9b599f96783ddf7452f873e99140334c9d691f76

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Binary packages built by this source

zerofree: zero free blocks from ext2, ext3 and ext4 file-systems

 Zerofree finds the unallocated blocks with non-zero value content in
 an ext2, ext3 or ext4 file-system and fills them with zeroes
 (zerofree can also work with another value than zero). This is mostly
 useful if the device 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 run. Zerofree requires the file-system to be
 unmounted or mounted read-only.
 .
 The usual way to achieve the same result (zeroing the unused
 blocks) is to run "dd" to create a file full of zeroes that takes up
 the entire free space on the drive, and then delete this file. This
 has many disadvantages, which zerofree alleviates:
  * it is slow;
  * it makes the disk image (temporarily) grow to its maximal extent;
  * it (temporarily) uses all free space on the disk, so other
    concurrent write actions may fail.
 .
 Zerofree has been written to be run from GNU/Linux systems installed
 as guest OSes inside a virtual machine. If this is not your case, you
 almost certainly don't need this package. (One other use case would
 be to erase sensitive data a little bit more securely than with a
 simple "rm").

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