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04/08: gnu: zerofree: Expand description.


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: 04/08: gnu: zerofree: Expand description.
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:11:59 -0400 (EDT)

nckx pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 4de4a1cfccb981757765202a0fd2db4bf7479822
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Aug 3 22:26:36 2017 +0200

    gnu: zerofree: Expand description.
    
    * gnu/packages/linux.scm (zerofree)[description]: Expand.
---
 gnu/packages/linux.scm | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 4810370..843ee6d 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -848,9 +848,10 @@ ext3 or ext4 partition.")
     (inputs `(("libext2fs" ,e2fsprogs)))
     (synopsis "Zero non-allocated regions in ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems")
     (description
-     "The zerofree command scans the free blocks in an ext2 file system and
-fills any non-zero blocks with zeroes.  This is a useful way to make disk
-images more compressible.")
+     "Zerofree finds the unallocated blocks with non-zero value content in an
+ext2, ext3, or ext4 file system and fills them with zeroes (or another value).
+This is a simple way to make disk images more compressible.
+Zerofree requires the file system to be unmounted or mounted read-only.")
     (license license:gpl2)))
 
 (define-public strace



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