Re: [Sheflug] Disk rescue / formatting

[Richard Stevenson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Rob Andrews wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 10:41, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > is there a linux equivalent of FDISK /MBR?
>
> Well, if you /really/ want to clear everything, you can always use:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/X bs=512 count=10000

For the past few years, I've done something similar (leaving off the block
count) to the disks on my workstation whenever I've left a job.  I think
there's someone on this list (Sean?  You there?) who can tell you what
happens when I'm stupid enough to leave some of my work lying around.
Sigh.

Cheers

Richard

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