:-)))

ohh, nice stuff! I was watching in man pages to see what it does mean...

be carefull folk! ;-)

alb

On Sep 10 at 10:07AM-0700, Andrew Farmer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:15:02PM +0200, Alberto Bert muttered:
> > On Sep 09 at 05:32PM-0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > > Yes, I've got a one-liner for you:
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 (or whatever partition Windows is on)
> > 
> > What is it supposed to do? I don't know what /dev/zero is...
> 
> /dev/zero is a special device that contains an infinite store of zero
> bytes. Similar is /dev/random, which contains the system's entropy pool.
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 will fill hda1 full of zeroes. Bye-bye
> Windows! ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Farmer
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