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04/08: gnu: zerofree: Expand description.
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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
- branch master updated (c890914 -> 9a7fd37), Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 02/08: gnu: zerofree: Use ‘modify-phases’ syntax., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 01/08: gnu: sshfs-fuse: Update to 2.10., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 08/08: gnu: xonsh: Update to 0.5.12., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 03/08: gnu: zerofree: Use ‘install-file’., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 04/08: gnu: zerofree: Expand description.,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <=
- 06/08: gnu: thefuck: Update to 3.19., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 05/08: gnu: zerofree: Update to 1.1.0., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03
- 07/08: gnu: cmark: Update to 0.28.0., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/08/03