From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 19:57:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1758E1065681 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3E58FC24 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j71so443963rne.12 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=g7RtGfvEOfGFUO5auIWhM1AckCIdDdG8bWi0O59f6jc=; b=QSSLn4XyJegNBuDvmIDW77JD2t6Aqo5u8r+BkBgWXkfxq+OadCivNGF48iL1iNviFD OVn5l3Kq9lwBNg1BH4cqTyqIYcclI068IwKRUBdsBKtivYMEYqwPi7nJ1YSnGEsnvfrP G5z2m+D4lgQpe6Fm6QIPG1kRx6Z7MB+/1uFyM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=cHWNVE5P+AtqoCeHgTGmK5WMRt899VjOtxBNd3CvubyumVa6XRY/E/MQ2WfooAQC8F yp8EDUVqVAdc1BjvU4gMYoFcqSlzv+kqiZvjk7TVB4O5Du4Chudmnu5b+NTYfWcnDJ6y 3hhWRkH+kzrFIHCVFMa1uYrNplpiLBLq4y4sQ= Received: by 10.142.170.3 with SMTP id s3mr4422301wfe.252.1214251067441; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.196.13 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540806231257x670cf398qc5bf11c396fd0afb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:57:47 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: "FreeBSD Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Wipe a drive clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:50 -0000 Hi, I'm having no luck finding hits for "wipe drive" or "zero drive" in the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?