On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 10:22:03AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Hmm...just curious; why didn't you just cat /dev/zero >/dev/sdc? > > I don't think cat knows when to stop. Heh. It'll stop when the disk is full. > I always use dd to restrict it to a few disk blocks - I find that > wiping the first 10K or so ... Sure. Actually, my preferred method using Unix/Linux is something like dd if=/dev/zero bs=1GB of=/dev/<device> tuning 'bs' to the device and how much you're going to overwrite. You can limit this using 'count=X'. 'Course, these days I just drop the disk on my Diskology DriveJockey and tell it to wipe it. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
