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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Command to output ones (like zero-fill), with progress indicator Post 302449761 by Gliktch on Tuesday 31st of August 2010 12:08:39 PM
Old 08-31-2010
Lightbulb Command to output ones (like zero-fill), with progress indicator

Well, I was originally going to post this snippet in the original thread titled "how to output ones endlessly like /dev/zero", but that topic was closed without an efficient answer.

It was difficult to find (build) a satisfactory answer to this one, so I thought I'd share it here and as a "fill hard drive with ones like zero-fill" entry on commandlinefu.

This command seems to get me about 500MByte/min, though this is with a 1.5TB 'green' drive running only at 5400rpm so I imagine it'd be faster in most other cases.
Code:
tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=512 count=[drive bytes/512] status=noxfer | pipebench | sudo dd of=[output disk/partition, e.g. /dev/sdb]

Hope that helps someone Smilie
- Gliktch

P.S: Note that pipebench is required - this is probably available in your distro's repositories Smilie
 

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RL(4)							     Kernel Interfaces Manual							     RL(4)

NAME
rl - RL-11/RL01, RL02 moving-head disk SYNOPSIS
/sys/conf/SYSTEM: NRL rl_drives # RL01/02 /etc/dtab: #Name Unit# Addr Vector Br Handler(s) # Comments rl ? 174400 160 5 rlintr # rl-01/02 major device number(s): raw: 16 block: 7 minor device encoding: bits 0007 specify partition of RL drive bits 0070 specify RL drive DESCRIPTION
The block files access the disk via the system's normal buffering mechanism and may be read and written without regard to physical disk records. There is also a `raw' interface which provides for direct transmission between the disk and the user's read or write buffer. A single read or write call results in exactly one I/O operation and therefore raw I/O is considerably more efficient when many words are transmitted. The names of the raw files conventionally begin with an extra `r.' In raw I/O the buffer must begin on a word (even) boundary, and counts should be a multiple of 512 bytes (a disk sector). Likewise seek calls should specify a multiple of 512 bytes. DISK SUPPORT
The RL01 drives are each 10240 blocks long and the RL02 drives are 20480 blocks long. On a RL02 there is room for a full sized root ('a') partition and a reasonable sized swap ('b') partition. The RL01 can only (realisti- cally) have a single 5mb partition. FILES
/dev/rl[0-3][a-h] block files /dev/rrl[0-3][a-h] raw files /dev/MAKEDEV script to create special files /dev/MAKEDEV.local script to localize special files SEE ALSO
hk(4), ra(4), ram(4), rk(4), rp(4), rx(4), si(4), xp(4), dtab(5), autoconfig(8) DIAGNOSTICS
rl%d: hard error sn%d cs=%b da=%b. An unrecoverable error occurred during transfer of the specified sector of the specified disk. The contents of the two error registers are also printed in octal and symbolically with bits decoded. The error was either unrecoverable, or a large number of retry attempts could not recover the error. rl%d: hard error sn%d mp=%b da=%b. An unrecoverable drive error occured during transfer of the specified sector of the specified disk. The contents of the two error registers are also printed in octal and symbolically with bits decoded. The error was either unrecoverable, or a large number of retry attempts could not recover the error. rl%d: write locked. The write protect switch was set on the drive when a write was attempted. The write operation is not recoverable. rl%d: can't get status. A ``get status'' command on the specified drive failed. The error is unrecoverable. BUGS
In raw I/O read and write(2) truncate file offsets to 512-byte block boundaries, and write scribbles on the tail of incomplete blocks. Thus, in programs that are likely to access raw devices, read, write and lseek(2) should always deal in 512-byte multiples. DEC-standard error logging should be supported. A program to analyze the logged error information (even in its present reduced form) is needed. 3rd Berkeley Distribution August 20, 1987 RL(4)
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