Package: zerofree Version: 1.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist (Just think about photo collection in ext2 disk. You erase some photos there but usually file contents stay on the storage media.)
Your package description and manpage states: | Zerofree has been written to be run from GNU/Linux systems installed as | guest OSes inside a virtual machine. If this is not your case, you | almost certainly don't need this package. I can think of use of zerofree not only for fancy virtual machine environment but for normal PC with USB memory etc. You can improve data security of ext2/ext3 formatted disk by using zerofree after erasing (possibly sensitive) files on it without completely overwriting remaining non-sensitive data. This seems handy for ext2 formatted USB memory stick when exchanging data etc on it. Since we never remember what sensitive data we placed, it is alwasys good idea to use zerofree if you are not so keen to do "dd if=/dev/zero" and mkfs etc. If you think my comment is true, please consider to add positive statement on other uses. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
