Re: How do I zero out my swap space?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 9/6/19 7:07 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a fedora 30 bootable flash drive.  /dev/sda5 is my "Linux
> Swap".  To zero out my swap space to make it more friendly
> with gzip?

Should have said: How do I zero out
> I would try just dd'ing /dev/zero across it, but I am afraid I
> might break some file structure or some other stuff.
>
> Many thanks,
> -T

Found this:

Zeroing out FreeBSD swap space?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/219557/zeroing-out-freebsd-swap-spa...

Which said to just dd it.  But it is for Free BSD, not Linux.