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Which way is the fastest to `dd` to the last 512 kilobytes of disk

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I have a 512G disk and I want to clear the last 512k bytes at the end of the disk. I usually clear it by the whole disk. Which way is the fastest to do this operation?

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0

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As already pointed out, accepts the parameter, which skips blocks in the output file. Now you need to know the exact size of the disk, if you want to write the last 512kB. On linux, you can use the command to get the size, in units of 512B. So the cā€¦

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