[Gambas-user] fastest way to "zero-out" a huge binary: Signal #11

[Pino Zollo]

Il domenica 24 gennaio 2010 03:23:20 gambas-user-request at lists.sourceforge.net 
ha scritto:
> perform this shell command:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=Elevation.tmp bs=65537 count=65537
>
> This is the absolute fastest way to do it.

Tried this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile.tmp bs=65537 count=65537

and the program suggested by Kadaitcha Man, (see attachment)

and I get Signal #11 , even after the file bigfile.tmp has been erased....on 
Gambas2  2.19 On Debian 

Regards

Pino
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