Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:55:45 +0000 From: "Bullet 446" <bullet446@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero-Fill format before installation Message-ID: <786a1e4f0810280655n61b4735brc16f344e7c9a018d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081028122231.GB49298@icarus.home.lan> References: <786a1e4f0810280321w7aa8894fnb736fa4c83d3ef5e@mail.gmail.com> <20081028122231.GB49298@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 then do the dd again. Thanks Jeremy, that worked fine. > I STRONGLY recommend you add "bs=64k" to that dd statement, or else it's > going to take a million years. :-) That's a good tip, reduced formatting time by 85%! :)
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