On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freem...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:57 PM, John Mahoney <jmaho...@waav.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx1 bs=128KB > >> > > > > I just wanted to make a note here that is probably obvious to 99% of > people > > here. If you do this test on a partition you are using as a filesystem > then > > it will destroy that filesystem. > > I was just about to blindly copy and paste this command and it came to my > > had that this may not be obvious to everyone. > > -- > > John > > That is the danger of this list. I just assumed the reader would know > the above was dangerous. > I am probably selling the list short on this one, but with the questions I have heard asked here over the part few months......
