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Re: [LUG] quick question: wiping a disk



On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 14:49, John Horne wrote:
Anyone remember the command to wipe a disk? I'm sure it was mentioned on
this list a while ago but I can't remember what it was. I've looked through
/sbin and /usr/sbin, and checked the archives (for 'wiping a disk') but
can't see anything familiar.

Many thanks to those that replied. I wasn't really thinking of using
/dev/random or whatever but it will do the job - I don't need mega
serious wiping. However, I really though there was some simple linux
command to do it. It's bugging me a bit now where I saw it! I read the
item and then tried the man page on a machine, I thought it was my work
pc, may have been a sun, but either way I can't find the command or
remember it. Oh well.


Thanks,

John.
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