[parisc-linux] i dont know jack

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Am 25.07.2002 um 18:29:15 +0200 schrieb Juergen Braukmann folgendes:

> Hi Rick, there probably is. Boot into some nini root environment and
> type:
> 
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sda [assuming THE drive is sda]

bs=1M

Increase the blocksize heftily.

> this will overwrite the intire disk with zero bytes (or was /dev/zero
> the proper device for that??). Atlernetivly, /dev/random might be a good
> source of rubbish data. ;-)

/dev/zero is better.
Don't try /dev/random, it's too slow

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