Re: wipe off hard disk?
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, fti International wrote:
> 1. Do the existing non-linux partition on hard disk affect the linux
> partition during the installation?
No.
> 2. Nomatter what the answer for 1 is, is there a way to "wipe off"
> the hard disk? I mena to make the hard disk as a new, never-used
> one?
Yes. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda (or whatever the device name of the
drive ready to be zeroed is). Writing all zeros to a disk generally
isn't necissary unless you're getting rid of the drive and are paranoid.
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