On 14 Jul 2004 at 10:05, Maarten wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd? ; dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd? > > I agree. But be advised that using /dev/urandom is several orders of > magnitude slower than either /dev/zero or /dev/full, so if you're not > paranoid or the data isn't that sensitive, you might want to opt for only > writing zeros and ones instead... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10000 > 10000+0 records in > 10000+0 records out > > real 0m4.770s > user 0m0.016s > sys 0m4.513s Thanks for the tip. 63mb took 67 minutes just doing \dev\zero on a drive that I am sending back to maxtor under warranty. This was a usefull thread Box is 800 mhz AMD. This was the most usefull thread I on full-disclosure I have read this year. Btw, booting knoppix on a box with framebuffer for video requires something like knoppix mem=??? where ??? equals memory - memory dedicated to video. For example, on my 256M box, 256 didn't work but a number low enough to leave out memory used by frame buffer booted fine. Wes _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html