On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:03:37PM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:

> actually, anyone suggest a good way of cleaning a filesystem, free disk 
> blocks 
> mainly ? 
You could dd from /dev/zero into a file on the target
filesystem, throwing in a bunch of sync calls here and there
until the filesystem fills up.

> am thinking of dumping the entire filesystem, and reload the os and programs, 
> zapping the disc blocks as well. only really needed to see if the import
> process worked. 
Not sure what you are hoping to achieve ?

Karsten
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