Command Line Magic on Nostr: If you find yourself in a rush and don't want to wait for filling out an encrypted ...
If you find yourself in a rush and don't want to wait for filling out an encrypted partition at install time (to hide disk usage patterns), you don't have to wait inside the installer. You can finish the install without doing that, reboot and do it from within the installed OS within the install with something like this:
ionice -n 3 dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfatzero bs=1M status=progress ; rm bigfatzero
The ionice will give the process lower i/o priority to keep your system snappy.
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2023-10-21 13:16:18Event JSON
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