Re: Best way to ZERO a harddrive


Subject: Re: Best way to ZERO a harddrive
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 17:50:26 AKST


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Mike Barsalou wrote:

> 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?

Yep. I've also done "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hdx" as well. In my case it
was a drive from a Library staff member's computer which was being donated
to another UAA department, so I wasn't comfortable with just zeroing the
partition table with fdisk.

Mike

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