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| -rw-r--r-- | perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm index 13c084f7..b11594f2 100644 --- a/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm +++ b/perl/lib/Sys/Guestfs.pm @@ -1162,6 +1162,19 @@ 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. +=item $h->zerofree ($device); + +This runs the I<zerofree> program on C<device>. This program +claims to zero unused inodes and disk blocks on an ext2/3 +filesystem, thus making it possible to compress the filesystem +more effectively. + +You should B<not> run this program if the filesystem is +mounted. + +It is possible that using this program can damage the filesystem +or data on the filesystem. + =cut 1; |