On Tuesday 02 Dec 2003 6:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:37 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > 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. > > Damn! That should have said diskdrake, not hard drake. Sorry about > that. ther rest is accurate though. > > > 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
OK folks. I talked him through off-list, and he's happy enough now. He's off-list until his new box is ready. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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