[CentOS] Write to end of disk

Joseph L. Casale JCasale at activenetwerx.com
Wed Apr 8 04:55:03 UTC 2009


>> quickly instead of reading/seeking to the end?

>Use
>
>       seek=bytes
>
>See
>
>       man dd

That doesn't do it "quickly". It still reads through n bytes until
it reaches the specified value which makes it equally painful as
just dd'ing the whole device.

At any rate, the objective was to clear out stale raid metadata so
I ended up --forcing a single disk raid 1, stopping it, then running a
--zero-superblock on it.



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