On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 19:28, Dave Price wrote: Use chkdsk, fdisk or pqmagic. they can all format and build new filesystems. Very easy to use to. > Hi, > > I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, > etc. > > I found this on /. thru a google search: > > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX > > When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install > disk, It does not seem to work ... i.e. I can still see the old > partition table in fdisk ... > > Is there maybe a better dd invocation ? > > aloha, > dave > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- /ernst
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