Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:55:22 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wipe a drive clean Message-ID: <48600DBA.5000304@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20080623223954.R9580@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <340a29540806231257x670cf398qc5bf11c396fd0afb@mail.gmail.com> <486000FF.2090102@ibctech.ca> <20080623223954.R9580@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> 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? >> >> Will... >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk >> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m > > bs may be smaller but not the default 512 bytes. it's a block size. > having very small block will make the process slow > >> ...work? >> >> Steve I like this tool for "nuking" drives: http://dban.sourceforge.net/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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