Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2012-01-16 Thread mike cloaked
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:23 +1000, Roger wrote: >> I've found over time that formatting with ext3 tends to remove most >> hidden partitions > > I don't see how it can do that.  Formatting creates a file system within > a partition.  If you want to do s

Re: Question on shredding a terebyte drive

2012-01-16 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:23 +1000, Roger wrote: > I've found over time that formatting with ext3 tends to remove most > hidden partitions I don't see how it can do that. Formatting creates a file system within a partition. If you want to do something to a partition, you need to use a function t