I've never run into a system yet where using dd to write zeros on the first few megabytes didn't completely wipe the disk as far as the OS and existing file systems are concerned.. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=65536 count=1024 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: erasing a disk
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