On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 09:15:13PM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/sda
That will just erase the first megabyte of the drive, leaving utilities like cfdisk to think the drive is new and unformatted. It won't attempt to over write the bad sector(s) though. See the other message I posted on how you can try to over write just the bad sector(s) faster. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
