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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/linux.scm | 7 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 481037066b..843ee6dc45 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm @@ -848,9 +848,10 @@ ext3 or ext4 partition.") (inputs `(("libext2fs" ,e2fsprogs))) (synopsis "Zero non-allocated regions in ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems") (description - "The zerofree command scans the free blocks in an ext2 file system and -fills any non-zero blocks with zeroes. This is a useful way to make disk -images more compressible.") + "Zerofree finds the unallocated blocks with non-zero value content in an +ext2, ext3, or ext4 file system and fills them with zeroes (or another value). +This is a simple way to make disk images more compressible. +Zerofree requires the file system to be unmounted or mounted read-only.") (license license:gpl2))) (define-public strace |