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diff --git a/sysutils/zeroer/pkg-descr b/sysutils/zeroer/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..aaf30892a655 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/zeroer/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The zeroer utility can be used to wipe empty space on a disk. In contrary to dd, +zeroer does not wipe existing files on a partition. It overwrites the +unallocated disk space around existing files, which means that deleted files +cannot be restored after processing a certain partition with zeroer. + +The utility's principle consists in writing huge zero-padded memory blocks to a +file. To a certain extent this works similar to dd, however zeroer dynamically +reduces the blockwriter's buffer size when the filesystem is going to be full. + +WWW: http://critical.ch/zeroer/ |