On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from
> /dev/zero...
Yes, but to a _file_ on the partition (ie he didn't overwrite any existign
data, just the empty parts of a filesystem).
I realize that it's not enough for the "re-allocate on write" behaviour,
and for that you really _do_ need to re-write the whole disk to get all
the broken blocks reallocated, but my argument was just that we should
make sure to _tell_ people when they are overwriting all their old data ;)
Linus
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