[olug] [OT] IBM Authorized service center in Lincoln...

Christopher Cashell topher-olug at zyp.org
Sun Nov 1 07:18:10 UTC 2009


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com> wrote:
> # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX
>
> should work just fine...

Running:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX

Will probably be a little more thorough. ;-)

(Reading from /dev/null returns End Of File; reading from /dev/zero
returns zeros.)

> Kevin D. Snodgrass

-- 
Christopher



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