zerofree binary package in Ubuntu Jammy amd64

 Zerofree finds the unallocated blocks with non-zero value content in
 an ext2, ext3 or ext4 file-system and fills them with zeroes
 (zerofree can also work with another value than zero). This is mostly
 useful if the device on 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. Zerofree requires the file-system to be
 unmounted or mounted read-only.
 .
 The usual way to achieve the same result (zeroing the unused
 blocks) is to run "dd" to 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. (One other use case would
 be to erase sensitive data a little bit more securely than with a
 simple "rm").

Publishing history

Date Status Target Pocket Component Section Priority Phased updates Version
  2022-04-04 11:14:23 UTC Published Ubuntu Jammy amd64 release main admin Extra 1.1.1-1build3
  • Published
  • Copied from Primary Archive for Ubuntu
  • Originally built as ubuntu jammy-release amd64 in 4816 - 2022-03-25
  Deleted Ubuntu Jammy amd64 proposed main admin Extra 1.1.1-1build3
  • Removal requested .
  • Deleted by Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync

    Moved to jammy

  • Published
  • Copied from ubuntu jammy-release amd64 in 4816 - 2022-03-25
  2022-04-04 11:15:00 UTC Superseded Ubuntu Jammy amd64 release main admin Extra 1.1.1-1build2
  • Removed from disk .
  • Removal requested .
  • Superseded by amd64 build of zerofree 1.1.1-1build3 in ubuntu jammy RELEASE
  • Published
  • Copied from ubuntu impish-proposed amd64 in Primary Archive for Ubuntu