Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:34:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dd and mbr Message-ID: <f0814445-d026-30-8956-84e36db9b7a6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20220112010402.GG61872@eureka.lemis.com> References: <4af920fc-eff1-a92e-d36e-1ba97079864c@gmail.com> <CAM8r67By518wp_1p9%2BJ5p7CE6Zj1M97Rm%2BaA-CSA-qtSVgyidw@mail.gmail.com> <20220112010402.GG61872@eureka.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: First of all thank you very much for your detailed answer! > Where did you get the dd approach? It is what I expect from dd. I did such things with OpenBSD before. > As others have said, at the very > least you should have limited the length, otherwise you would > overwrite the entire disk, one sector at a time. That is what I wanted. I was deleting some old disks. I filled it with zeroes and not random in order not to make the process slower. Perhaps there is a faster tool than dd. I know, the better way to delete is to destroy physically the disk, at best to burn and melt it. Rod.
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