On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:04:42PM -0400, B Smith wrote: > I'm about to give an older computer to a friend of mine, but before I do > so I would like to clean the hard drive thoroughly. I was thinking that > a few ` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda ` would do the job, but am unsure > of what block size to use. Is there an easy way to find out the hard > drive's block size?
For my own edification, why is this better than /dev/zero ? Thanks, David
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