Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "intgat".
2006 Apr 02
1
Zeroing freed blocks
...sparse files.
After they've been in use for a while their sparseness is reduced even
though they may have lots of free space. Having the guest kernel fill
deleted blocks with zeros doesn't make the underlying file sparse,
but it does help. I've got a page with more details:
http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/sparsify.html
Anyway, a couple of things:
1. The patch (see below) is pretty simple. I've been using it for some
time in UML build systems for old versions of software (rh62, anyone?),
and today I even tried it for several seconds in a Xen domU kernel.
It seems...
2006 Sep 07
7
wiping of unused space on ext3
Hello,
I was asked if it is possible to zero unused space in ext3 partition?
Users write to the server via Samba and are far from computer geeks so
teaching them to use some safedelete utility is quite impossible.
Is there some way or utility to wipe out all the data from unused space?
Thanks,
Mindaugas
2006 Sep 07
7
wiping of unused space on ext3
Hello,
I was asked if it is possible to zero unused space in ext3 partition?
Users write to the server via Samba and are far from computer geeks so
teaching them to use some safedelete utility is quite impossible.
Is there some way or utility to wipe out all the data from unused space?
Thanks,
Mindaugas