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Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !



On 2008-04-22 16:05 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:49 AM, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   thiscommanddoesnotexist > /tmp/test
>>
>> >   ls -lha /tmp/test
>> >
>> >  Perhaps an EOF was written
>>
>> opps.. a correction.
>> what i did was $cat  /dev/null >  /dev/sdb1
>> i forgot to include the cat command :(
>
> Then you zeroed the disk. As others said, hope you have a backup.

No, you would only zero out the disk if you cat /dev/zero to it.
Catting /dev/null immediately returns and does nothing.

Sven


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