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Re: Erasing a hard disk easily


From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:16:12 +0200 (MET DST)

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] wrote:

is the addition of /dev/full sufficent ie /dev/zero alternated by
/dev/full should do the trick ? ie write zeros and ones on the disk,

/dev/full is full of zeroes...like /dev/zero (opened for reading)

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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