[CentOS] Re: wiping of unused space on ext3
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Sep 8 13:52:23 UTC 2006
Ron Yorston wrote:
> "Mindaugas" <mind at bi.lt> wrote:
>> I was asked if it is possible to zero unused space in ext3 partition?
>
> I have a couple of patches that add a zerofree mount option to ext2 and
> ext3 filesystems. The ext2 version is much better tested and more
> complete: it zeros all file data blocks, directory blocks and extended
> attributes (though not inode data). The ext3 patch only handles file
> data, not metadata.
>
> I've been meaning to submit these to LKML, but since you ask let's give
> them an airing here first.
Ron,
thanks for these patch's - I dont think we can have them included in any
official centos-repository hosted kernel, but its good to know that
people, should they need this, can get to them here.
- K
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