[plug] Zeroing blocks on ext2/3

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Thu Oct 30 14:58:56 WST 2003


In message <3FA0B4E0.6040204 at wasp.net.au>
on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:51:12AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> >  dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/part/foo
> >  rm /mnt/part/foo
> 
> Nope.. obviously trying to do things the hard way :p)
> cd /tmp ; cat /dev/zero > tmpzero ; sync ; rm tmpzero

How are those different??


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