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[haiku-development] Re: mkfs utility for haiku

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 09:46:58 +0200 CEST
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >  What about an option to wipe all data on the disk first?
> >
> >  Even better, why not make this the default behaviour? Sometimes I
> > feel
> > paranoid and use all these options in Mac OS X...
> >
>
> Please don't make this the default behavior. A full disk wipe takes a
> very very long time on a modern large disk, and I definitely don't
> want to see it doing that unless I actually want it to.

Besides if you are really paranoïd writing zeroes is not enough, so
better leave it to specialized programs.

François.





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