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

[Jim Kinney]

partition in 2 equal sizes. start dowloading youtube videos (or Linux
distro DVDs) until one is full. rsync to the other half. now run
badblocks

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?
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> Sincerely,
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> Ron
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