GRUB discussion -- virgin disks ?

Jacques B. jjrboucher at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 02:56:09 UTC 2007


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>
> Note, Jacques, that /dev/null doesn't do anything useful here:-)
>

Sorry, thanks for pointing that out.  It should have been /dev/zero in
order to fill it with \x00's.

/dev/zero provides the null character \x00, whereas /dev/null is used
as the bit bucket to send unwanted data to the binary Gods (i.e. ls
*.sh *.txt *.gzip 2>/dev/null
to redirect errors to the bit bucket thus only seeing successful
output to the screen).

<snip>
> Cheers
> John
>

Jacques B.




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