On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Jackrabbit Slim wrote: > > > if I run it like this: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 > > > > it will convert the entire hard drive to zeros right? If I do that would I > > be able to rebuild partitions and the partition table from fdisk? > > ouch. boy, you really are on a mission here. the only issue is that > you would also zero the final two bytes of the MBR, which are x"aa55", > the standard signature of a PC's master boot record. i don't know > enough about whether certain programs require that signature to be > present to recognize a boot record, so i'd be *very* reluctant to > overwrite them. > > but i don't see why you'd need to zero the *entire* disk, when zeroing > the disk's partition table is effectively doing the same thing. > > rday
Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a satisfactory way of "zeroing" out the hard drive (no data retrevial possible) if the system was being sent to salavage (sold off)? _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
