If this web server was running on AWS EC2 with attached EBS volumes then zeroing out a new partition was actually AWS' recommended practice to initialize the di

If this web server was running on AWS EC2 with attached EBS volumes then zeroing out a new partition was actually AWS' recommended practice to initialize the disk for performance reasons. EBS no longer requires this. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-initialize.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-init...