Re: [SLE] Zero free space on a partition?

Sunny, On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:35, Sunny wrote:

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:14:17 -0600, John N. Alegre wrote:

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I am looking for some method of writing 0 to the free space on a partition leaving all files intact...

Thanks john

Correction (thanks Randall):

And thanks for reminding me of /dev/zero. I knew there was a way to do this, but it escaped me when I wrote my reply, or I would have mentioned it. (And lastly, sorry for the private post--I missed changing the reply address.)

dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.tmp bs=1024 count=xxxxxxx

Sunny

Randall Schulz