Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:32:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Sten Daniel S?rsdal <lists@wm-access.no> Cc: Ronny Hippler <r11roadster@yahoo.com>, chat@freebsd.org, "Hamell, Rick \(ACS\)" <rick.hamell@nike.com> Subject: Re: Reason #328 why I love FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20060217163239.GA13036@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43F595CE.9000106@wm-access.no> References: <200602150003.k1F03cED001106@barriere241.nike.com> <43F595CE.9000106@wm-access.no>
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On 2006-02-17 10:22, Sten Daniel S?rsdal <lists@wm-access.no> wrote: >Hamell, Rick (ACS) wrote: >> And, Quick Format just destroys and rebuilds the FAT on >> Windows. It doesn't reformat every block on the hard drive >> (which use to be a big problem, but according to Microsoft >> isn't any longer.) > > I don't see why every block needs to be reformatted. Any > special reasons? If you have the time to really go through this, writing zeroes to all disk blocks may actually catch some faults of the disk early enough, before you start trusting the specific disk with the data & meta-data of a real filesystem :)
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