Joachim Schipper <[email protected]> wrote on Sat 9.May'09 at 12:20:25 +0200
> The bioctl(8) man page helpfully suggests dd for zeroing out the > disklabel etc. on the new disk. However, the command doesn't work, since > OpenBSD's dd doesn't understand '1M'. > > It may be slightly more readable to use 'bs=1024 count=1024' or some > variant. > > Joachim > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 > Index: bioctl.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8,v > retrieving revision 1.66 > diff -u -p -r1.66 bioctl.8 > --- bioctl.8 19 Mar 2009 15:11:59 -0000 1.66 > +++ bioctl.8 9 May 2009 10:07:23 -0000 > @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ or > don't get confused by the random data that appears on the new disk. > This can be done with the following command (assuming the new disk is sd3): > .Bd -literal -offset 3n > -# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1M count=1 > +# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1048576 count=1 > .Ed > .Sh SEE ALSO > .Xr ami 4 ,
