On 04/05/2018 12:59 AM, Todd Chester wrote:
If you what to completely blank a disk out, don't mess around with that operating system whose name I shall not mention. (I hear it is slow, buggy, and expensive.) Stay in Linux. # dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
If I understood the original post correctly, the person was wanting to blank the free space, not erase the whole disk. The problem was that the program used was a secure eraser which filled the blank space with random data which doesn't compress.
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