On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> cam anybody tell me the function/utility of /dev/zero?
>
This thing comes in handy when you want to assign a block of memory
for some sort of operation (say to create a ramdisk), you basically
copy repeatedly from /dev/zero (dd if=/dev/zero of=your_block) to
your desired block converting everything in that block
*contiguously* to zero.
-amlan.
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