This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
>Reaching in the dark, here, but I imagine it would have failed after
>overwriting the section where /dev/zero was kept?  If so, then you may
>be able to get to everything after there.

Nup.  The /dev/zero inode may have been trashed, but the kernel still has a
filehandle to the device open for the dd process, so it would have kept
feeding zeros.  /dev/ is just an index to the devices.

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