I think you made the wrong choice :
Zeroing means deleting all you datas, and replace them by zeros. You should have commented this line. ##zeroing in partitionDisk.sh : #dd if=/dev/zero of=${disk}4 bs=1M count=32 and keep the following one which reconstruct the filesystem ##makefilesystem in freshInstall.sh : mkfs.ext4 -b 65536 -m 0 ${disk}4
So no-one tried the @megadoz solution to keep data's