[wplug] Zeroing out a swap partition

Hal halinux at frontier.com
Thu Jul 21 14:11:01 EDT 2016


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:47:31AM -0400, Pat Barron wrote:
> Can anyone suggest an "easy" way to zero out the contents of a swap 
> partition, without affecting the "formatting" of the partition?  (On 
> RHEL / CentOS / Fedora, if that matters....)

Could you change to using a swap file entering " > nameofswapfile "

I zero many files that way preserving the tree..

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              Hal..

                    GNU-Linux/UNIX - Slackware 14.1 JFS X86


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