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Re: [PLUG] copying harddisks
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:48:38PM -0500, Darxus@ChaosReigns.com wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb
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> Use /dev/random.
I think the problem with that is that it'll take a *really* long time if
thye kernel runs out of randomness, and idd will block until more random
data is available. I could be wrong, though. (wipe(1) once ran for ~12
or 13 hours one time when I was deleting a bunch of stuff.....)
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