Sterilizing free space

[Neil Watson]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:42:01PM -0500, Sy Ali wrote:
>On 1/3/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/device might be good, but much slower
>> obviously.
>
>Thanks for the tip.. I didn't realise there was another source of data
>to draw on.

Using /dev/random may not be practical.  The system will need you to
generate entropy.  You'll need to give the system some mouse traffic
throughout the procedure.  This could take a very long time.  I'd stick
with /dev/zero.  No, there is no /dev/one.

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