Re: [Xen-users] Clean deleted space in linux diks?

[James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If there isn't a huge amount of free space and/or making one big file 
> isn't an issue.
> dd if=/dev/zero of=null-file bs=1024k ; rm null-file
> or
> cat /dev/zero > null-file ; rm null-file

I tried this today and although the creation and deleting of the file
worked fine, the SAN reclamation did not free any space, or make the
disk sparse/thin. I'll let you know if something turns up with support
on the matter. 

Thanks for the help. 

James


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