[CentOS] Re: wiping of unused space on ext3
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.orgFri Sep 8 13:52:23 UTC 2006
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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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
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