You should check out: http://www.partimage.org

Does what you need.

John Hebert

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Eastman
To: [email protected]
Sent: 7/14/03 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] HD Free Space

I'm sorry, maybe I didn't really make clear what I want to do.  I want
to keep all of the files on the system, but zero out all of the unused
space so that an image of the disk or partition can be compressed
easier.

-- Matt Eastman

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 11:51, Dennis Rowe wrote:
> The command "dd" will probably work for you with /dev/zero.
> 
> Dennis
> -------
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 10:47, Matthew Eastman wrote:
> > Since I didn't clarify, the filesystem is ext3.
> > 
> > -- Matt Eastman
> 
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