And thank you to Kevin - this did the trick perfectly. I've been able to
recover everything successfully.
Regards,
Jason
Kevin Hunter wrote:
> The tool is 'dd' and /dev. /dev/zero in this case. The summary of what
> you asked:
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256k
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 262144 bytes (262 kB) copied, 0.00130993 seconds, 200 MB/s
>
> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./zblah count=1 bs=256000
> 1+0 records in
> 1+0 records out
> 256000 bytes (256 kB) copied, 0.00136915 seconds, 187 MB/s
>
> HTH,
>
> Kevin
>