Am Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:37:09 +0200
schrieb Marc Joliet :
> (Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's still useful to you.)
NP. The links below were interesting.
> On Dienstag, 4. April 2017 00:46:54 CEST Kai Krakow wrote:
> > Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400
> >
> > schrieb Rich Freeman :
> > >
(Sorry for the late reply, I hope it's still useful to you.)
On Dienstag, 4. April 2017 00:46:54 CEST Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400
>
> schrieb Rich Freeman :
> > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. Th
On 04/04/2017 04:07 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I've googled fairly extensively on the subject and did not find a way
described anywhere to return a disk to what is called its raw state.
There's not such thing. When shipping, the disk might contain all
zero-bytes, or random bytes.
There may ev
Mike Gilbert writes:
[...]
> If you are not worried about securely removing all data and simply
> want to fool fdisk into thinking your drive is empty, use the wipefs
> utility. This will zero-out key bytes like the MBR, partition table,
> filesystem magic numbers, etc.
>
> You'll want to run it
On 04/03/2017 09:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't
remember ever running into anything like this.
I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the
state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least
no evi
Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400
schrieb Rich Freeman :
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow
> wrote:
> >
> > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you
> > need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
> >
>
> If it co
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
>
> Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you
> need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
>
If it contains data you'd prefer not be recoverable you might want to
use shred or ATA s
Am Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:11:40 -0400
schrieb Harry Putnam :
> I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't
> remember ever running into anything like this.
>
> I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the
> state it was in when new... Not sure what that state
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