From 6447b9a5b2607be32a7de731ca4f482a2df43cdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mikepell <mikepell@pellegq.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:43:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add drive compact/zero

---
 prepare-ubuntu-18.04-template.sh | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/prepare-ubuntu-18.04-template.sh b/prepare-ubuntu-18.04-template.sh
index f66b3b9..9bedd10 100755
--- a/prepare-ubuntu-18.04-template.sh
+++ b/prepare-ubuntu-18.04-template.sh
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ sudo sed -ri '/\sswap\s/s/^#?/#/' /etc/fstab
 # cleans out all of the cloud-init cache / logs - this is mainly cleaning out networking info
 sudo cloud-init clean --logs
 
+echo "Compacting drive..."
+dd if=/dev/zero of=EMPTY bs=1M > /dev/null
+rm -vf /root/EMPTY
+fstrim -av
+
 #cleanup shell history
 cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c
 history -w