On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That is the danger of this list. I just assumed the reader would knowOn Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:57 PM, John Mahoney <jmahoney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx1 bs=128KB
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> I just wanted to make a note here that is probably obvious to 99% of people
> here. If you do this test on a partition you are using as a filesystem then
> it will destroy that filesystem.
> I was just about to blindly copy and paste this command and it came to my
> had that this may not be obvious to everyone.
> --
> John
the above was dangerous.
I am probably selling the list short on this one, but with the questions I have heard asked here over the part few months......
