on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:32:24PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks; > Is there a program that will write zeros to a Linux > partition? I need to clean up a hard drive and doing > a mke2fs does not erase the old data, so that is not > a formatting program.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk partition> bs=1024 count=<partition
size in KB>
> The reason is that with each new installation of
> Debian 2.2 I get worse and worse response from the
> distro.
I find it doubtful that this has anything to do with the above
question.
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