formatting a hard drive in Linux

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oops sorry that should be
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda



Doug Sutherland wrote:
> Lost again? hehe
> To low level format, writing zeros to all sectors:
> dd if = /dev/zero of /dev/hda
> Change hda to your drive name
>
>   -- Doug
>
>
> Scott Berry wrote:
>   
>> Could I please again get the directions to use dd to format a hard 
>> drive and also the boot partition?  As some how they got lost.
>>
>>   
>>     
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