[Eug-lug] zeroing my pc

[Kenneth Silverman]

i'm not sure if i know how to do that.....thanks anyway larry!
On May 15, 2004, at 6:28 PM, Larry Price wrote:

>
> use df or fdisk to figure out the size of the partition
>
> then use
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=${DEVICE_NAME} bs=1024 count=${SIZE_OF_DEVICE}
>
> where
>
> DEVICE_NAME = the name of the partition (varies)
>
> SIZE_OF_DEVICE =  in 1k blocks
>
> If you want to be truly paranoid you do this several times over
> alternately substituting /dev/urandom and /dev/zero
>
> Don;t do this to any partition that represents the entire disk
>
>> hi you guys! i am trying to completely "swipe" the hard disk clean on
>> my desktop pc, the one that neal and joseph helped me partition with
>> linux and windows in january. i managed to wipe the windows side clean
>> by formatting but haven't erased the knoppix side or taken the
>> partition out. somebody at last week's meeting gave me the commands to
>> completely zero the drive but I LOST THE PAPER IT WAS ON! sorry for
>> being a dweeb. can anyone give me the command line to zero the disk so
>> i can sell the thing and get on with linux on my new apple????? 
>> THANKS!
>> Ken Silverman
>> 541 343 0912
>> hapilife at efn.org
>> http://members.efn.org/~hapilife/
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Ken Silverman		
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