@[email protected] Because people using it are used to Windows so they’re also used to wait on unnecessary slow system operations ? I’ll see myself out…
But more seriously it’s because it’s a good practice. It allow easier recovery and all.
But it’s really long if you have, like me, a non-ssd drive of 5 TO (It would take about 2 days at full disk speed to dd to 0 every bit of it).
@[email protected] Because people using it are used to Windows so they’re also used to wait on unnecessary slow system operations ? I’ll see myself out…
But more seriously it’s because it’s a good practice. It allow easier recovery and all.
But it’s really long if you have, like me, a non-ssd drive of 5 TO (It would take about 2 days at full disk speed to dd to 0 every bit of it).