On 08.05.02, 16:08:26, Julio Merino wrote:
> Maybe:
> 
> yes | dd bs=1000k of=/dev/sdXa
> 
> can do the job. They won't be one's, but this data will be different
> than zero.

But then several bits would always be zero, and not overwritten
alternatingly with zeroes and ones.

If you want anything other than ones and zeroes, I'd rather recommend
/dev/random.

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Bernd Sieker

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