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		saintx on June 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 Boom. Problem solved.

rythie on June 19, 2013 [–]

Why are you specifying such a small block size? bs=1M or more is much quicker for that sort of thing

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