Better seed?

[Jack1090]

Would

dd if=/dev/random of=MySeedFile bs=512 count=20;dd if=MySeedFile of=/dev/floppy/DBANSEED/SEED bs=512 count=1;rm MySeedFile

improve or degrade the quality of a seed file?

 

[dajhorn]

Neither, because any part of a random file is also random.

If you are splitting a large random file into smaller 512 byte seeds, then remember to use the `dd skip=` option or all of the seeds will be identical.