/dev/zero

[Mike]

for some reason I don't think I want to do that either.

On Sunday 19 February 2006 09:51 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
> >Ummm, only do that if you're trying to lose everything on hda...
> >
> >>>The same thing happened with /dev/random
> >>>what should I open it with?
> >>
> >>cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>evil grin :>
>
> What he *meant* was:
>
> # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>
> which still provides a good lesson about /dev/random. :)