Re: formatting a disk with dd
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:
> I've got a hard disk that I wanted to format and I can't quite remember
> how to do this with dd.
If you have disk image and if disk contain no bad sector, this can be
done. Also dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/hda will overwrite all sector with 0.
But us this what you wants?
man fdisk
man mke2fs
Good luck :-)
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