Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:23:41 -0500 (EST)) > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc > > The purpose is with any new disk its good to write to all the blocks and > let the drive to all of the re-mapping before you put 'real' data on it. > Let it crap out or fail before I put my data on it. better use badblocks. It writes data, then reads it afterwards: In this example the data is semi random (quicker than /dev/urandom ;) badblocks -c 10240 -s -w -t random -v /dev/sdc -- Janek Kozicki | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
