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<Manager> The SAN has arrived at [redacted] :)

<Sysadmin> fun and games

<Developer> first to fill it with 1’s wins…

<Sysadmin> I think I can do: dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/san/somefile bs=1T count=3

<Jes> Sysadmin: I wonder how dd feels about a blocksize of 1TB ?

<Sysadmin> its in the manpage

<Sysadmin> so it must be fine! :-)

<Jes> doesn’t it need to be able to read the entire bs into memory/swap at once?

*Sysadmin tries it and sees

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<Sysadmin> yeah don’t do that