my poor e450 ;)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:59:21PM -0500, John wrote:

> Well anyways this is how i wiped the drive (from openbsd btw)
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd2c bs=512
> only took 20 hours.

FWIW, using a larger block size (say, 64k) makes disk writes go a lot
faster.

Kris
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