Re: Looking for a good disk exerciser

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John R Pierce wrote:
fredex wrote:
I'd guess that several passes with data from /dev/random might be
a good thing.

I've tried that, tis kinda brutally slow. dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576

You want to do "dd if=/dev/urandom of=...." for that... reading that much from random will deplete the entrophy pool.

//Morten
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