Re: [Xen-users] Zero LVM

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> When providing Xen guests to cutomers, it is important to make sure that the
> LVM LV is "zeroed" before use. What is the correct syntax to do this?
>

What do you mean it should be "zero'd" ?

> I've tried:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vg0/lvname
>
> however this seems to go on forever (unless my test machine is just slow!)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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