On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 05:27:38PM -0700, Kenneth Silverman wrote: > hi you guys! i am trying to completely "swipe" the hard disk clean on > my desktop pc, the one that neal and joseph helped me partition with > linux and windows in january. i managed to wipe the windows side clean > by formatting but haven't erased the knoppix side or taken the > partition out. somebody at last week's meeting gave me the commands to > completely zero the drive but I LOST THE PAPER IT WAS ON! sorry for > being a dweeb. can anyone give me the command line to zero the disk so > i can sell the thing and get on with linux on my new apple????? THANKS!
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<whatever> bs=16777216 where <whatever> is hda for the first drive (requiring repartiton), hda1 for the first partition, etc. The bs= argument isn't needed, but it should make it run a little faster. You use some large power of two for the value, that's 16*1024*1024 I have used above. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
