On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from > /dev/zero... Yes, but to a _file_ on the partition (ie he didn't overwrite any existign data, just the empty parts of a filesystem). I realize that it's not enough for the "re-allocate on write" behaviour, and for that you really _do_ need to re-write the whole disk to get all the broken blocks reallocated, but my argument was just that we should make sure to _tell_ people when they are overwriting all their old data ;) Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
