Which way is the fastest to `dd` to the last 512 kilobytes of disk

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I have a 512G disk and I want to clear the last 512k bytes at the end of the disk.

I usually clear it by dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 the whole disk.

Which way is the fastest to do this operation?

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Which way is the fastest to `dd` to the last 512 kilobytes of disk

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Published on 2010-04-08T11:17:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 11:23 UTC
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I have a 512G disk and I want to clear the last 512k bytes at the end of the disk.

I usually clear it by dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 the whole disk.

Which way is the fastest to do this operation?

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