Best partitioning?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 26 19:44:14 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:22, Vassilios Kotoulas wrote:
> > Would cp /dev/zero /dev/hda do the same thing?
> I think this won't work. cp is a file system command and what you want
> is killing your file system
Thanks to the unix 'everything is a file' philosophy, cp can open
all the same names that dd can, devices or not. You are just missing
some of the translation and reblocking options that might be needed if
the target was a tape drive.
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Les Mikesell
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