On 2020-06-01, Justin Noor <justinnoor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone ever filled a 4TB disk with random data and/or zeros with > OpenBSD?
Yes. > How long did it take? I don't remember. Hours. At a plausible 100 MB/s write speed it will take 11 hours. > What did you use (dd, openssl)? Can you share the command that you used? # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/rsd1c bs=64k # random data # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1c bs=64k # zeros Take care to pick the proper device corresponding to the drive you want to overwrite. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
