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Subject: Re: wiping a drive with dd
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"gpeel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> writes:

> 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?).

Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes.

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