Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:05:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.16 (previously, 2.6.15.x) |
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Agreed, though the original poster had already done a 400GB dd from > /dev/zero...
Yes, but to a _file_ on the partition (ie he didn't overwrite any existign data, just the empty parts of a filesystem).
I realize that it's not enough for the "re-allocate on write" behaviour, and for that you really _do_ need to re-write the whole disk to get all the broken blocks reallocated, but my argument was just that we should make sure to _tell_ people when they are overwriting all their old data ;)
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