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| author | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-04-30 19:28:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-04-30 19:28:54 +0100 |
| commit | 62df226f26bd6ac3c481a7790eb89d760d2f0386 (patch) | |
| tree | 617a5a436598902b2239d67535925520c20a6e6e /perl/lib | |
| parent | 2a42bec2c5ee521f29179a5aab713f5a9ca2c3b8 (diff) | |
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Added 'zero' command to wipe partition tables and superblocks.
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| -rw-r--r-- | perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm index 5b87b27e..2d75b69f 100644 --- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm +++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm @@ -1006,6 +1006,14 @@ Because of the message protocol, there is a transfer limit of somewhere between 2MB and 4MB. To transfer large files you should use FTP. +=item $h->zero ($device); + +This command writes zeroes over the first few blocks of C<device>. + +How many blocks are zeroed isn't specified (but it's I<not> enough +to securely wipe the device). It should be sufficient to remove +any partition tables, filesystem superblocks and so on. + =cut 1; |