At 11:10 AM 7/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>This is just an idea, could you just do "cat /dev/zero > out.file" where
>out.file is on the drive you want filled?  It will die when it runs out
>of space I think.

That's not a bad idea! Another way to ensure you have a clean file system 
is to backup, kill the file system, recreate it, and then restore. At that 
point the file system is as clean as you will get it. Naturally, there is 
more work involved in this method.


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