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Originally Posted by knc1
Formatting the file system would help a lot (5.5).
A file full of zeros isn't going to pass fschk, I can tell you that without even trying it. 
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The following 'resize2fs' also does nothing in this case. It extends a filesystem to fill all the trailing zeroes after appending /dev/zero to an the end of an existing filesystem. It is faster to format a small fs then append zeoes and resize it, than format a large fs, though.