provision/write_zeroes.sh


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#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -x

# Write zeros to improve virtual disk compaction.
zerofile=$(/usr/bin/mktemp /zerofile.XXXXX)
dd if=/dev/zero of="$zerofile" bs=1M || true
rm -f "$zerofile"
sync