[olug] [OT] IBM Authorized service center in Lincoln...

Kevin D. Snodgrass kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 1 19:27:54 UTC 2009


--- On Sun, 11/1/09, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:
> From: Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org>
> Running:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
> 
> Will probably be a little more thorough. ;-)
> 
> (Reading from /dev/null returns End Of File; reading from
> /dev/zero
> returns zeros.)

DOH!!  Watching football and typing an email message can lead to /dev/random results!


Kevin D. Snodgrass




      



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