On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > cut -c 1-512 /dev/zero | head -50000 > /dev/hda Blah, sorry, that won't work, of course, unless you're fond of having all 0x0a on your disks. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/