On 04/05/2018 08:36 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote:
If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that
operating system whose name I shall not mention. (I hear it is slow,
buggy, and expensive.) Stay in Linux.
# dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
If I understood the original post correctly, the person was wanting to
blank the free space, not erase the whole disk. The problem was that
the program used was a secure eraser which filled the blank space with
random data which doesn't compress.
CLone Zilla skips over data that is not allocated, unless
your are LUKS encrypted. Goes like the wind!
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