[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:37:09 +0200 schrieb Marc Joliet : > (Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's still useful to you.) NP. The links below were interesting. > On Dienstag, 4. April 2017 00:46:54 CEST Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400 > > > > schrieb Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-14 Thread Marc Joliet
(Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's still useful to you.) On Dienstag, 4. April 2017 00:46:54 CEST Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400 > > schrieb Rich Freeman : > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow > > > > wrote: > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2017 04:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've googled fairly extensively on the subject and did not find a way described anywhere to return a disk to what is called its raw state. There's not such thing. When shipping, the disk might contain all zero-bytes, or random bytes. There may

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Gilbert writes: [...] > If you are not worried about securely removing all data and simply > want to fool fdisk into thinking your drive is empty, use the wipefs > utility. This will zero-out key bytes like the MBR, partition table, > filesystem magic numbers, etc. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/03/2017 09:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't remember ever running into anything like this. I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least no

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you > > need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents: > > > > # dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you > need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX > If it contains data you'd prefer not be recoverable you might

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:11:40 -0400 schrieb Harry Putnam : > I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't > remember ever running into anything like this. > > I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the > state it was in when new... Not