Can't I get a /dev/one?
William M. Quarles
walrus at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 14 04:34:48 UTC 2004
Jim Higson wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 00:02, William M. Quarles wrote:
>
>>Okay, so there is a /dev/zero. Shouldn't there be a /dev/one, too? Is
>>there any way that I can fill a file or device full of ones?
>
> Btw, why do you want this?
>
I guess that I should have said that from the beginning, so that I
wouldn't have to write this as frequently.
I'm trying to fill a hard drive with all ones. I know how to fill it
with all zeros:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=1024 count=58615704
I don't know how to fill it with all ones.
I'm working within pretty low functionality on this system (RHL 9
installation CD rescue mode).
Thanks,
William
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