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How can I create a scenario to test zerofree?
What I am doing
I am studying the filesystem image sparse tool: zerofree.
I imagine the steps to create the scenario should be that:
create a file system image.
use some way to fill it.
clear it, but ...
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Is it safe to interrupt when "fallocate --dig-holes" is running?
I use fallocate --dig-holes on very large disk images to make it sparse in-place. I'm worried that this operation may not be atomic. My questions are,
Is my data guaranteed to be safe (holes are ...
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NTFS support on Linux, dealing with large sparse files, impact on performance
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I attempted to recover data from a failing HDD using ddrescue on a recent Knoppix environment. At first I stored the output to a NTFS partition, but at some point the copying rate ...
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