Mark,

I'm sure you know this, but others may not:

*That's a dangerous command! *

You will trash your running Linux (it's not shooting yourself in the foot,
it's shooting yourself in the head!)

It is kinda fun to see what happens to the Linux ...

    -Mike M

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote:

> I've been able to accomplish similar "resetting" of a DASD volume for
> testing in the past simply by:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dasda bs=1M count=500
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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