On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:25:27PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote:
I am trying to zero out all the unused disk space in the FBSD system
Hard Drive.
Using this command
dd if=/dev/zero of=filler bs=1m
but get error message saying file system full and have file named
filler.
I don't think this commands is doing what I want.
Why not? All this means that what used to be unused disk space has now
been taken by the file filler, which happens to be full of zeros.
If you now rm filler, this frees up the disk space again; the now free
disk-space now contains mostly zeros (it won't stay that way for long
on an active system).
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