[svlug] Need a shell/bash loop over each partition and execute dd && rm

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

On 08/01/11 21:51, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> Also note that long /dev paths will break df output to two lines.
> 
> Maybe parsing the output of "mount"?
> I know on Linux, you can:
> echo $( mount | grep "^/" | cut -d" " -f3 )
> 
> I don't have a BSD machine to check mount's output there.
> 

I know, bad form to reply to my reply... :)

#! /bin/bash

# hopefully BSD uses the same output format for mount(8)
mount | grep "^/" | sed 's/^.* on \(.*\) type .*$/\1/' | \
while read MOUNTPOINT; do
   echo "Zeroing unused blocks in ${MOUNTPOINT}"
   sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=${MOUNTPOINT}/zerofile && \
      sudo rm ${MOUNTPOINT}/zerofile
done

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