[aklug] Re: Linux tip of the day

From: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org>
Date: Fri Apr 10 2009 - 14:13:10 AKDT

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:

> On Thu, April 9, 2009 11:22 pm, Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Probably is best not to start encrypting your hard-drive at 11:00 at
>> night. Apparently the entire drive is supposed to be covered with random
>> data first.
>>
>> It is 11:30 and I am at 13 percent. :(
>
> I find the easiest way to accomplish that is to hold your hard drive
> in front of Arthur and have him give it a stern glare. :)

Even better is to tell Arthur that FreeBSD's UFS with soft updates is
functionally equivalent to Linux+XFS. Best done only with ear and eye
protection though.

:-)
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