[CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

Niki Kovacs contact at kikinovak.net
Sun Jun 7 18:11:04 UTC 2009


Rainer Duffner a écrit :

> Yup.
> If you have the time, you can experiment with the blocksize and see  
> where the throughput is best.
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-09/msg01375.html

Interesting thread. Guess I'll give it a few spins with different 
blocksizes (20k, 200k, 2M, 20M) and time { } the operation. Just curious.

Anyway: thanks!

Niki



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