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  3. February 2021

Re: scratching a system

Yes and that is a good idea except you can't pick a different pattern to write should you decide 'one filling' just isn't good enough. :-)

- L

On 2/9/2021 2:10 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
Gee if you really want to fill up disks fast I find submitting a few of these is pretty easy, and writes X'00' on each byte.
CRTNWSSTG NWSSTG(SPACE1) NWSSIZE(1024000) FORMAT(*OPEN)
1024000MB aka 1,024GB aka 1TB


Rob Berendt



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