On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:38:08AM +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > head -c 10000000 /dev/zero >/dev/sdc > > will zero a few megabytes and make the disk to appear perfectly clean. Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc? > (be careful with this stuff!) Most assuredly; this is 70 caliber, at least. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat at dminet.com