on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:32:24PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Folks; > Is there a program that will write zeros to a Linux > partition? I need to clean up a hard drive and doing > a mke2fs does not erase the old data, so that is not > a formatting program.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<disk partition> bs=1024 count=<partition size in KB> > The reason is that with each new installation of > Debian 2.2 I get worse and worse response from the > distro. I find it doubtful that this has anything to do with the above question. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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