[TriLUG] OT: Laptop Hard Drive

Jack Hill jackhill at jackhill.us
Fri Nov 18 12:36:50 EST 2011


On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Alan Porter wrote:

>
>> However, there's another benefit to having the empty sectors zeroed.
>
> The advantage for me is that my zeroed blocks on my LVM physical
> volume will be written to my LUKS-encrypted disk as newly-randomized
> bits.

Why is that advantageous?

Jack



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