Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 8.2 amd64. I bought an external USB 2TB disk and because it came pre-formatted with a load of Windows rubbish. I wanted to use dd to zero out the disk. Here is the command I used:
[cmd=]dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1M[/cmd]
However the command was started at around 23:00 last night and it is still running as I write now (17:40) - is this normal for a disk of that size? gstat shows that there is disk activity on /dev/da0 and it is constantly around 98% busy.
Thanks.
[cmd=]dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1M[/cmd]
However the command was started at around 23:00 last night and it is still running as I write now (17:40) - is this normal for a disk of that size? gstat shows that there is disk activity on /dev/da0 and it is constantly around 98% busy.
Thanks.