Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:16:58 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@sabami.seaslug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Erasing an IDE disk Message-ID: <20000414161657.A35142@sabami.seaslug.org>
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Hi- I'm fixing to remove a disk from my system and give it to someone else. I want to erase it to try to make sure that no personal or sensitive data can be recovered from it. So, my first attempt was to install FreeBSD 4.0 on it, then try to do this kind of stuff: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s2c but it complained about /dev/ad0s2c being a read-only file system. I can do installs of DOS, Windoze, etc or various FreeBSD releases, if necessary to do it. I'm assuming that I could do it to SCSI disks with a low level format request, but any suggestions on how to do this to IDE disks? Thanx, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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