Were you given any indication that the operation had completed? This
thing has been running for five or six hours on a fast machine. I'm
pretty sure it has to be done by now, but the command prompt hasn't
returned control, and top and ps still show that dd is still running. I
suspect that because /dev/zero will return zeros forever, the drive must
have been completely zeroed out, and dd just started at the beginning of
the drive, again. But, it sure would be nice to know for sure... :)
>>> technomage-hawke@cox.net 6/26/04 8:58:46 PM >>>
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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