I also find it very useful for wiping an HDD
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?
Very useful if you have trouble frying a pre-existing partition table or
a dodgy HDD.
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Ken Yap wrote:
> >Here's a quick one... What is /dev/zero used for, and what are a few good
> >examples?
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