On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:24 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: > Funny, that's how my backups always end up working as well. 'cat > /dev/urandom > /dev/tape' :) No, actually the backup is more like tar ...|openssl ...|dd ...| tee /dev/nsa0 |md5 But yeah, for the disk, you're right: dd if=/dev/urandom | tee /dev/ad2 | md5 Then: dd if=/dev/ad2 | md5 and compare. Cheers, Frank -- It is said that the Internet is a public utility. As such, it is best compared to a sewer. A big, fat pipe with a bunch of crap sloshing against your ports.
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