[ltp] MicroSD and Thinkpad T61

[Paul Seelig]

I do it for the same reason i do it on any new hard disk or pen drive: a
first real stress test helps to verify if there is any hidden issue.

I really wouldn't want to find out about any issues only later in the
future, when saving of important data fails due to unreliable storage.

I don't care so much for my storage media, but do for my very own data.

On 02/27/2011 04:10 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 19:36 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
>> Before i'd actually use any such device for the first time, i'd first
>> dd
>> it with zero's before putting any file system on it:
>>
>>         dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk1p1 bs=1M
>>
> Why exactly do you do that? It's not really a good idea to do useless
> writes on flash memory...