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Re: further ideas on Re: Still bothered by annoying Re: new motherboard now Autorepeat of keys even when not pressed down



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


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