On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > head -c 10000000 /dev/zero >/dev/sdc > > will zero a few megabytes and make the disk to appear perfectly clean. Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc? > (be careful with this stuff!) Most assuredly; this is 70 caliber, at least. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines