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

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

got it running.

estimated time till done is 2 days.  dd isn't very fast.

Ron


"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>Thanks for the note.  I found the following online which shows how to
>run dd with time to get the time used when done and also shows how to
>check on the progress.
>
>time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb
>
>Checking on progress
>
>The dd command doesn’t give us any useful feedback whilst it’s running,
>but we can force it to cough up some useful data by prodding it with a
>USR1 signal. Assuming you only have one instance of dd running we can
>use:
>
>kill -USR1 `pidof dd`
>
>(Note, they are backticks around the pidof dd command.)
>
>From:
>
>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/duncanelliot/entry/using_dd_and_urandom_to_write_random_data_to_a_disk?lang=en
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ron
>
>
>gcs8 <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>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
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
>>> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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Please excuse my potential brevity.

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(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
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