@i_lost_my_bagel@mastodon.lilysthings.org because that’s what microsoft tools used to do by default, and they wanted to do things identically?

@i_lost_my_bagel@mastodon.lilysthings.org 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).