Aye! This is probably the best way to do it! Completely forgot about /dev/zero :)
I'm doing that right now! But the Reiser4 is making it hard to fill the HD, since all filesystem is compressed... So now i've a 40Gb file and df says only 450Mb of space is being occupied... Lets see how long it takes ;) But comming to think of it... Since everything is compressed maybe the final think being written to the drive aren't zeros... Ow well... lets see what happens :) On 4/11/07, Till Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Till Maas wrote: > > > I don't know, whether or not there is an application for this. But if you > > Another option, to get at least very much nullbytes on the partition would > be: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/zerofile bs=8192 > sync > > and wait till the partition is full. Then remove /path/to/zerofile. This is > better done in a live cd enviroment as well. > > Regards, > Till > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- As coisas são como elas são porque é assim que as fizemos ser. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
