Hallo Herr Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel,
am Sonntag, 9. Februar 2025 um 13:48 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Eric, hi all,
>
> I am happy to inform you that Nikkho published version 2.0.5 of ZEROFILL.
> It fixed a lot of minor bugs, among others it was unable to write more than 2
> GB with FD and
> if you delete the zerofile files it shows that they are deleted (in older
> versions you could not
> see that it deleted files and you had the feeling that it crashed).
Nice. However correctly handling 4GB+ disks correctly might be expected from a
2.0.5 utility.
> I tested it several times in virtual machines, and it works fine! With vmware
> you are even
> able to mount a real existing HD and to write inside with zerofill! (Be
> careful, vmware does
> not ask you for drive letters, but for HD numbers first, later for the
> partition that you want
> to use - and vmware needs admin rights. Of course you need FAT32.)
> Interestingly vmware was writing much faster than virtualbox. Even working
> with virtualbox
> and vmdk was slower.
>
> What most of you will overlook:
> Zerofill is the FIRST FD tool that really handles a 2 TB formatted HD!
While I haven't tested COMMAND on a 2 TB disk, I expect it to report free disk
space correctly. For more then 10 years.
> Neither chkdsk nor dosfsck, defrag etc. do this till now!
They are an entirely different class of utilities.
> So ZEROFILL is a milestone in supporting big HDs by FreeDOS. CONGRATULATIONS,
> Nikkho!
Please spare us this marketing BLA. Fixing bugs is nice, but doesn't make the
'milestones'.
Tom
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