[plug] Zeroing blocks on ext2/3

[Trevor Phillips]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 14:51, Brad Campbell wrote:
>
> Nope.. obviously trying to do things the hard way :p)
> cd /tmp ; cat /dev/zero > tmpzero ; sync ; rm tmpzero
> Does the job nicely from within the VM.

Yep. That'd do the trick! ^_^ (And neater syntactically than dd...)

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