-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 02 December 2003 4:45 am, philip wrote: > I think I have not been clear. the 20 gb hard drive i have is still in > my old computer, before I can remove it i need to format it. My question > is how do you format a hdd in Linux so is is empty. > Thanks
Do what I did on the weekend, boot from pclinuxos live cd and after mounting the drive use the shred facility in the super user file manager to wipe everything, then reboot run hard drake from Mandrake disk 1 (any recent version) and turn the entire drive into one large FAT 32 or ext2 partition, then shut down and remove it or whatever you want. Trust me; everything is "gone" enough for most people. A scanning tunnelling electron microscope might find enough fragments to do a partial reconstruction but you haven't pissed anyone _that_ powerful off enough for them to bother. Have you? <g> Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 10:31:32 up 18:22, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.05 If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing. -- Bertrand Russell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zM3ZZqvqlrLPr5YRAl7jAJ92N2yM7hdjwz4xifr30KL92FZBSgCfYfIG kAfiailW7dnF6PlHVo5NC2U= =KSiN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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