Zero'ing out deleted files

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Published on 2010-04-21T04:36:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 4:44 UTC
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I want to minimize the amount of space my virtual disk is using, by zero'ing out the data on any deleted files. The virtual disk is a VDMK running ubuntu on VirtualBox.

What is the best way to find any deleted files, and zero them out, so that when I export the appliance the disk size is only existing files on the disk?

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