Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:03:51 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John <strgout@unixjunkie.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my poor e450 ;) Message-ID: <20030623200351.GA12222@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20030623195921.GA69353@mail.unixjunkie.com> References: <20030620042259.GA60831@mail.unixjunkie.com> <20030621003322.GA5020@crow.dom2ip.de> <20030623195921.GA69353@mail.unixjunkie.com>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:59:21PM -0500, John wrote: > Well anyways this is how i wiped the drive (from openbsd btw) > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd2c bs=512 > only took 20 hours. FWIW, using a larger block size (say, 64k) makes disk writes go a lot faster. Kris --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+910nWry0BWjoQKURAt/9AJ9vCB+i8ZXlLc3VAIZEcpX0RsHw0wCgjF07 2D+ICM57yurgRr6lW6yXDxk= =uKC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--
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