On 31-May-2002 Dave Price wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, > etc. > > I found this on /. thru a google search: > > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX > > When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install > disk, It does not seem to work ... i.e. I can still see the old > partition table in fdisk ... > > Is there maybe a better dd invocation ? >
first, use cfdisk, fdisk, etc to wipe the partition table. Then send random to it. I would be a little leery of random and would use /dev/zero myself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
