Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hello, Amaya wrote: > I maintain the package perforate. It contains a very similar utility, > zum, that is just a small c binary that seems to do the same. Thanks for the perforate info. zum is a resparser for existing files. This is quite different from filling existing files with binary zero. A

Re: Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-03 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hi again, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Please add a technical overview to your introduction. As a techie, I > would like to read what is so special about zerotools what I cannot do > with: > rm crapfiles && cat /dev/zero > bigfile && sync && rm bigfile && sync. > > And you introduction does not tell me

Announce: zerotools (tools to keep virtual machine disks cleaner)

2007-01-02 Thread Aleksandr Koltsoff
Hello It was suggested that I'd post a short announcement on these two lists in order to get some feedback for a small set of utilities I just released. The documentation covers integrating the tools into Debian and I'd appreciate feedback on that part. Especially if I'm doing something which is o