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/* zerodisk: erase unallocated space from disk */
/* Steve Creps (creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu), March 6, 1989 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <string.h>
#define BLOCKSIZE ((unsigned int)1024)
static char tmpfn[] = "zerodisk.tmp";
int
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
char *buf, *tmppath;
FILE *fp;
int output;
if (argc > 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: zerodisk [device]");
exit(-1);
}
if ((buf = (char *)calloc(BLOCKSIZE, sizeof(char))) == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "zerodisk: cannot calloc %u bytes.\n" , BLOCKSIZE);
exit(-1);
}
if (argc == 2) {
unsigned int l = strlen(argv[1]) + strlen(tmpfn) + 1;
if ((tmppath = (char *)malloc(l)) == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "zerodisk: cannot malloc %u bytes.\n", l);
exit(-1);
}
sprintf(tmppath, "%s%s%c", argv[1], tmpfn, (char)0);
} else sprintf(tmppath, "%s%c", tmpfn, (char)0);
if ((fp = fopen(tmppath, "wb")) == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "zerodisk: cannot open %s.", tmppath);
exit(-1);
}
output = fileno(fp);
while (write(output, buf, BLOCKSIZE) >= 0) ;
(void)fclose(fp);
unlink(tmppath);
return 0;
}