format discs.

[Taka]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:00:33 +0200, Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Taka wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:26:38 +0000, Flanagan wrote:
>>>hello to all 
>>>
>>>somebody can say to me whereupon I modulate of python I can format 
>>>discs. 
>>>
>>>
>>>thanks flanagan
>> 
>> Let's presume you want to format a unix partition and that it is
>> /dev/hda1.
>> The do this:
>> 
>> #!/bin/python
>> 
>> import os
>> partition = open ('/dev/hda1', 'w')
>> 
>> for x in range(os.path.getsize('/dev/hda1'):
>> 	partition.write ('0')
>> 
>> partition.close()
>> 
>> 
>> :)
> 
> Didn't you mean ;-) instead of :) ?
> 
> Your approach is hard to beat in inefficiency.
> 
> -- Gerhard

Yes, but since file partitions are usualy bigger than your physical RAM,
you cannot do

import string
partition.write (string.zfill('0', partition.getsize('/dev/hda10')-1)