:-))) 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
