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From: uk1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can we clear SWAP?
Date: 12 Aug 1996 20:48:56 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
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In article <4ul7a6$nk@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
writes:
>mbouhaid@extro.ucc.su.oz.au wrote:
>
>> Can we clear the swap?
>> or in other words is it possible to format the swap drive?
>
>You can dd /dev/zero all over it, but obviously, only while it is not
>yet in use (i.e., in single-user mode before swapon has been run).
Well, actually dd seek=<a 64k worth of blocks> if=/dev/zero ...
Joerg, SCNR. :)
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