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...fined as 4096) > - Erase <number> blocks starting at block <number> > - erase last <number> blocks Use dd in a script: #!/bin/bash # erase N 4K blocks starting at M # (M=0 means from the start of the disk) # usage: $0 start4Kblock numberof4Kblocks drive M = $1 N = $2 rawdisk = $3 dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 oflag=direct count=$N seek=$M of=$rawdisk > At least such an algorithm would be quicker than erasing 8 TB of data. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.cento...

A colleague found some VMX files which omit the deviceType field. This allows -i vmx mode to parse them. Rich.

Folks I've encountered situations where I want to reuse a hard-drive. I do not want to preserve anything on the drive, and I'm not concerned about 'securely erasing' old content. I just want to be able to define it as an Physical Volume (in a logical volume set), or make it a ZFS disk, or sometimes make it a simple EXT3, ExFAT or NTFS disk. However, old

...- type: SEV_CAPABLE - type: GVNIC id: '1486194601799523829' kind: compute#image labelFingerprint: 42WmSpB8rSM= licenseCodes: - '3197331720697687881' licenses: - https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/centos-cloud/global/licenses/centos-stream name: centos-stream-8-v20240312 rawDisk: containerType: TAR source: '' selfLink: https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/centos-cloud/global/images/centos-stream-8-v20240312 sourceType: RAW status: READY storageLocations: - eu - asia - us > On 18. Mar 2024, at 08:28, Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at centos.org> wro...

Hi all, As you're all aware (we sent multiple mails in the last year about this), CentOS 7 and Stream 8 will go EOL soon : https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/ Let's lists some things that will happen on the CentOS Infrastructure as we'll be approching (or passed) these dates : # CentOS 7/8s content itself Usual process :