On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 15:25 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Russell Senior wrote: > > > Why do you care? I guarantee after writing zeros or urandom to it, > > you > > won't have partitions anymore. > > Well, there's no OS on it and I doubt anyone will try to recover any > data > from the drive, of which there was nothing of importance. > > I care because I'm curious why cfdisk didn't leave the disk with no > partitions. > > I read your Subject: Scrubbing hard drive.
If what you wrote to the Subject is true then dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd... is the correct answer. Google or man page contains a lot of details. I advise against using /dev/random instead of /dev/zero because/dev/zero is much, much faster. Best luck, Tomas _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
