You should run shred on it. dd if=/dev/zero... is nowhere near as thorough as shred. Not saying that the typical person shopping at DI will have the know how to read a drive that has been zero'd, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
-Michael ----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:16:48 PM Subject: Re: dd booboo I thank you all for your help. I can see the disk now that I restarted the computer. I feel it's safe to give the hard drive to DI. -Daniel On 2/17/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
