Bug#462091: Fwd: RFC/RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems

[Thibaut Paumard]

Réenvoyé-De : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
De : Thibaut Paumard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date : 6 février 2008 17:25:15 HNEC
À : Debian Mentors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Objet : RFC/RFS: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "zerofree".



* Package name    : zerofree
  Version         : 1.0.1
  Upstream Author : Ron Yorston
* URL             : http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C

Note that I have set the Dm-Upload-Allowed field. This package is unrelated to the work I usually do with my sponsor Christoph Haas, which is why I prefer to ask here rather than to him. ITP : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi? bug=462091

  Section         : admin

Description: zerofree - zero free blocks from ext2/3 file-systems
 Zerofree finds the unallocated, non-zeroed blocks in an ext2 or ext3

 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.
 .
 The usual way to achieve the same result (zeroing the unallocated
 blocks) is to run "dd" do 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.

The package appears to be lintian and linda clean.

The upload would fix this bugs: 462091 (ITP)

The package can be found on my personal repository:
- URL: http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/~paumard/debian/pool/main/z/zerofree/

file-system and fills them with zeroes. This is useful if the device on - Source repository: deb-src http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/~paumard/ debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/~paumard/debian/pool/main/z/zerofree/ zerofree_1.0.1-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
 Thibaut Paumard

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