Re: formatting a disk with dd

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya andrew...

if you are trying to format a disk ... dont bother with dd...
it'd take you hours todo it...

run fdisk.... and mke2fs  manually ... its 100x faster than dd
especially on 20Gb, 40/60/80 Gb drives
	- no point to having 20Gb of zeros written 

	- you just want the tracks formatted, NOT the data...
	( dd copies track info and data )

c ya
alvin


On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote:

> HI All,
> I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember
> how to do this with dd.
> 
> Anybody know?
>