NAME¶

zum - free disk space by making holes in files

SYNOPSIS¶

zum [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION¶

zum reads a files list on the command line and attempts to perforate these files. Perforation means, that series of `0' bytes are replaced by lseek(2)s, thus giving the file system a chance of not allocating real disk space for those bytes.

EXAMPLE¶

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zum

If you zum under /boot, where your kernel image lives, your system will become unbootable unless you run lilo again.

AUTHOR¶

Oleg Kibirev <oleg@gd.cs.CSUFresno.edu>.

Manual page by Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>.