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Any one running gentoo?

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parimm Original post #1
Feb 16, 2010 at 7:34 AM
hey guys just wondering if there was some one running GEntoo?
Flake
Flake #2
Feb 16, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Hi !

I am running Gentoo for last 2 years. Its really stable distro. If you want to know in and out of Linux then you should try Gentoo, Arch or Crux.
hellknight
Feb 16, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Me too.. running gentoo 64-bit
C
Mar 15, 2010 at 12:27 AM
he he gentoo...
One-pass zeroization: "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xdy bs=ZZM count=WW"
x is h is pata, s if sata/scsi
y is device letter (a for first device on s/ata/scsi, b for second...z for 26th).
for blocksize, ZZ is your drive's speed.
Use the transfer rate from "hdparm -t --direct /dev/xdy" and round down the output a bit (i.e., my laptop's hd is 27.5MB/sec; I round down to 24)
A good idea is to enable 32-bit IO, dma, irq unmask, and write caching: "hdparm -c3d1u1W1 /dev/xdy"
WW (count) = (drive size in GB * 1000) / (transfer rate in MB/s)