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+Zerofree is a utility which scans the free blocks in an ext2/3/4
+filesystem and fills any non-zero blocks with zeroes.
+
+This is useful if you have an ext2/3/4 virtual disk image
+(e.g. VirtualBox' .vdi) that you wish to compact.
+
+See project homepage for information and usage.