In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > So are you saying that if I create a swap partition it's best to use dd to > zero it out before mkswap?
Nope I did not. However I dont know of any other shell tool which can do it that easyly. > As far as portable, we're talking about linux, portability is not an issue > in this case. Portability across Filesystems. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/