[thelist] Linux diskwipe tool?

[alpha at student.uci.agh.edu.pl]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:44:29PM -0800, spinhead wrote:
> proprietary data. Is there a viable diskwipe utility (can run from Windows
> or Linux, we don't care) which will reliably clear the disks? I have to be

the simplest solution:

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bsize=1k count=99999

it would fill /dev/hda (first master hd) with 99999kb (change this to
your hd size) of zeros

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