Re: Filling a disk with random data - question

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Cpp <tzornik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 
My question is are there any serious drawbacks of using this method in
place of the urandom one?

 
I do not know of any drawbacks and i also use cryptsetup to fill up hard drives with
random data or when creating encrypted container files because i too find it to be faster
than /dev/urandom.



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