Best way to ZERO a harddrive

Subject: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 15:48:34 AKST

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I have some drives that I want to blank out. What is the best way to zero a
harddrive?

Would this work ok:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx

x being whatever drive I was going to do it to?

Mike

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