Source: perforate Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Package Salvaging Team Uploaders: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre , Hector Garcia Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/perforate.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/salvage-team/perforate Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Homepage: https://perforate-linux.sf.net Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: perforate Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Utilities to save disk space GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make holes in existing files. . Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk (finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).