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honzajavorek/fill-by-zeros.sh

Created February 15, 2013 10:30
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PHP/shell script to fill a disk by zeros, useful when you want to completely clear a disk without any option of restoring original data
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fill-by-zeros.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "<?php \$i = 0; while(true) if (false === @file_put_contents('zerofile' . \$i, str_repeat('0', 134217728), FILE_APPEND)) \$i++;" | php
rm zerofile*
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