On 01/09/2014 08:12 PM, John Hasler wrote:
Filling the drive with zeros is a waste of time. Just tell the installer to take over the entire drive. Doesn't matter what's on it.
I zero drives: 1. For security -- e.g. destroy all old data, configuration files, etc..2. For disaster recovery space efficiency -- e.g. drive images with lots of zero blocks compress nicely.
David