Re: [LUG] quick question: wiping a disk

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, John Horne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone remember the command to wipe a disk? I'm sure it was mentioned on
> this list a while ago but I can't remember what it was. I've looked through
> /sbin and /usr/sbin, and checked the archives (for 'wiping a disk') but
> can't see anything familiar.
>
> Hmm, should calrify that I think the command had different levels of writing
> data onto a disk, and hence basically wiping it.

Creating one big partition on the disk and dd-ing /dev/random to it might 
do the job :)

Alex.


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