On 01/09/2014 08:12 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Filling the drive with zeros is a waste of time. Just tell the
installer to take over the entire drive. Doesn't matter what's on it.
I zero drives:
1. For security -- e.g. destroy all old data, configuration files, etc..
2. For disaster recovery space efficiency -- e.g. drive images with
lots of zero blocks compress nicely.
David
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