@i_[email protected] because that's what microsoft tools used to do by default, and they wanted to do things identically?
@i_[email protected] Because people using it are used to Windows so they're also used to wait on unnecessary slow system operations ? I'll see myself out...
But more seriously it's because it's a good practice. It allow easier recovery and all.
But it's really long if you have, like me, a non-ssd drive of 5 TO (It would take about 2 days at full disk speed to dd to 0 every bit of it).
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