Hello, On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Arun Khan wrote: > One of my hard disk is showing symptoms of impending failure. Before > sending it for replacement, I would like to blank out the entire disk > (80GB in my case). > > Is the following sufficient? > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1K count=78148161 (sdb1 is the entire > disk - MBR)
I think you should probably blank /dev/sdb rather than /dev/sdb1. Also if the person who buys your disk wants to analyse it magnetically and has the equipment to do so :) then this is not enough. In that case you need to run something like "shred". Kapil. -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
