Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 05:08:13 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 09:35 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> >
> >  Making the bs value an integer multiple of
> > the the physical block size of the device is probably a good idea in
> > most circumstances.
> >
> >
> Going back to my original question, as the HDD I am using is a 4096 physical
> and 512 logical block, what would be a recommended bs value.

4096

poc



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