On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:22:03AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc?
>
> I don't think cat knows when to stop.
Heh. It'll stop when the disk is full.
> I always use dd to restrict it to a few disk blocks - I find that
> wiping the first 10K or so ...
Sure. Actually, my preferred method using Unix/Linux is something like
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1GB of=/dev/<device>
tuning 'bs' to the device and how much you're going to overwrite. You
can limit this using 'count=X'.
'Course, these days I just drop the disk on my Diskology DriveJockey and
tell it to wipe it.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
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