Dave Ihnat wrote:
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?
Think about the speed of USB and the size of a useful thumb drive.
(be careful with this stuff!)
Most assuredly; this is 70 caliber, at least.
I would just use fdisk to delete all the partitions, then create a new one (or
ones), then mkfs on the partition. I wonder if the OP did a mkfs on the raw
device instead of the partition, and that's why it looks so odd.
Doesn't matter now, problem S.B. solved.
Cheers,
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