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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 481037066b..843ee6dc45 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