On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:23:27PM -0700, Daniel wrote: > FYI when I finished the dd booboo I did "df -h" it showed /dev/sdb1 as > having -XXX used space. It also said that dd ran out of space. after > all this I unplugged it. I was trying to wipe out the drive so I > could give it away. I will try plugging it back in and see if I can > see it.
Ah. In that case, run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb (Note the lack of a 1 in the device name.) That's the command I thought you had run earlier. In addition to getting the first partition (sdb1), you will also get the partition table and the rest of the gap between the first sector on the drive (the partition table) and the beginning of the first partition. Running out of drive space was perfectly reasonable. You didn't give dd a count, so normally it would go until it exhausted the input file. Since your input file has an infinite supply of zeros, dd filled up the partition. Other than clobbering the file system, the command is harmless. The OS won't let you write beyond the end of a partition. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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