[vox-tech] How to erase unused disk space?

Rod Roark rod at sunsetsystems.com
Tue Jan 17 06:52:42 PST 2006


On Monday 16 January 2006 09:40 am, Ryan wrote:
...
> cat /dev/zero > /zero;rm -f /zero
> 
> That's probably the easiest. Make sure you run it as root, ext2/3 reservers a 
> percentage of the disk for root.

Thanks Ryan -- I totally overlooked the simple solution!

-- Rod


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