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Re: Inquiry:How to totally wipe out the entire hard drive



H.Motamedi writes:
> Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my
> hard drive under Debian OS ?

Depends on what you want to accomplish.  If you merely want to make the
disk appear empty use fdisk to delete all the partitions.  If you want
to destroy all the data for security purposes install and use shred.  It
will take quite a while on a large disk.
-- 
John Hasler


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