[ale] How do I fill a new hard drive with random data to burn it in?

[gcs8]

Oh, I forgot to read, I think you can do it with dd.


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:38 PM, gcs8 <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> dban
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> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
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>> I want to fill a new hard drive with random numbers as part of a burn in
>> process that I do.  I know I can boot a copy of Ultimate Boot CD and do
>> this, but I want to do it from a running Ubuntu installation.  Once I've
>> filled it with random numbers, I will do a few non destructive read write
>> tests with badblocks.  Initially, there is no data on the drive, so I don't
>> care about file systems, or partitions.  I want to write to every bit of
>> user accessible space.  What commands would I use?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
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