[plug] Zeroing blocks on ext2/3

[Trevor Phillips]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Does anyone have any leads on how to zero unused blocks on an ext2
> filesystem?

Are you trying to do something more complicated than I think you're doing, or 
is something like this what you want?

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/part/foo
  rm /mnt/part/foo

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