phantom

phantom scans files for blocks containing all 0x00's (binary zeros) and replaces them by 'phantom blocks', freeing some diskspace.

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  •  08 Jul 2005 06:18
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Changes: The setuid-bit was not always copied correctly; this has been fixed.

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  •  30 Jan 2001 06:13
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    Changes: Initial announcement.

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    Rcomment-before 03 Jan 2001 04:13 Rcomment-trans fvh Rcomment-after

    --sparse
    Oh dear :o) If only I had read the 'cp' man-page more thoroughly.
    But ok, I've added a new option to my program which replaces the input-file.
    So now you can do something like:
    find / -type f -print | xargs -n 1 phantom -r -i
    This is als probably possible with some scripting, I guess.

    Rcomment-before 22 Dec 2000 06:51 Rcomment-trans kenyap Rcomment-after

    phantom
    Do you realise that GNU cp --sparse=always will do pretty
    much the same thing, on a copy albeit? Of course your utility might have the advantage of running where GNU utilities may not.

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