Re: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

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Author: technomage
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
hmmmmmmmm.
well, considering that its up to 10 MB/sec on most ata drives (more like 4 or
5 MB/sec), expect it to take longer than an hour (it did in my case for a 120
GB drive: 2 hours 12 minutes).

Technomage Hawke

On Saturday 26 June 2004 08:46 pm, plug wrote:
> Anyone have any idea how long that command should take to execute on a
> 80G drive? Does it actually drop back to the command prompt when
> complete, or does it start over at the beginning, when it finishes?
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