Re: help fdisk and dd

[Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, chloe K <chloekcy2000@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
>
> ls fdisk ok or use dd
>
> Can data be recovered?
>
> and what is the dd command?
>


fdisk just repartiions the disk.

dd is an axe. It can be used to copy anything to anything. This is
useful to _really_ wipe data off.

Regards

Rajagopal
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