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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: wiping a drive with dd
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When dd is used like:
> 
> dd if="/dev/0" of="/dev/da1" bs="1024"
> 
> Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does 
> it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?).

Yes.

////jerry

> 
> -Grant
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