On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Dec 1 2007 06:26, Justin Piszcz wrote:
I ran the following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde
(as it is always a very good idea to do this with any new disk)
Why would you care about what's on the disk? fdisk, mkfs and
the day-to-day operation will overwrite it _anyway_.
(If you think the disk is not empty, you should look at it
and copy off all usable warez beforehand :-)
The purpose is with any new disk its good to write to all the blocks and
let the drive to all of the re-mapping before you put 'real' data on it.
Let it crap out or fail before I put my data on it.
Justin.
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