hi ya andrew...
if you are trying to format a disk ... dont bother with dd...
it'd take you hours todo it...
run fdisk.... and mke2fs manually ... its 100x faster than dd
especially on 20Gb, 40/60/80 Gb drives
- no point to having 20Gb of zeros written
- you just want the tracks formatted, NOT the data...
( dd copies track info and data )
c ya
alvin
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> HI All,
> I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember
> how to do this with dd.
>
> Anybody know?
>
