On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 15:05 -0800, Grant wrote: > I used unetbootin to install Damn Small Linux on the 512MB bootable > USB key, and I'm booted into it. /dev/sda is my HD, and I'm running: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda > > The USB LED is blinking rapidly, but the HD LED is showing no > activity. Is there any way to tell if the HD is being wiped? > > I hate to say this, but are you wiping the wrong device?!
There should be pretty much 0 activity on the USD stick (/dev/zero is kernel) and plenty of writes to the HDD.
