Subject: Re: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
From: James F. Zuelow Jr. (jamesz@ideafamilies.org)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 17:19:19 AKST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Barsalou" <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
To: "'Justin Dieters'" <enderak@yahoo.com>
Cc: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
>
> Thanks. I was looking for a consistent way that I could do it, no
matter
> what kind of drive that I have.
>
> Mike
>
This should do it (works great from Tom's Root/Boot):
badblocks -w /dev/[device]
the -w option for badblocks will do a destructive test. It's not all
0's, but uses different patterns written to disk. Anything on that disk
is overwritten and overwritten again - and you get the bonus of finding
any bad blocks as well. :D
Cheers,
James
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