Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:33:10 +0000 From: Duane Hill <duihi77@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <152375425.20120722173310@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <op.whuxsezgg7njmm@michael-think> References: <201207221038.q6MAc8kW022215@mail.r-bonomi.com> <500C0B21.3020001@cran.org.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207221701330.2621@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <500C1788.8000505@cran.org.uk> <op.whuxsezgg7njmm@michael-think>
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Personally, I've always used a product from http://www.jetico.com/. On Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 17:06:04 UTC, gmx@ross.cx confabulated: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:08:56 +0200, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> On 22/07/2012 16:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>> 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M' works under Cygwin - or you can >>>> just write a load of zeros to \\.\PhysicalDrive0 . >>> >>> who prevents you to bood live CD or pendrive with FreeBSD (or >>> openbsd,netbsd,linux,solaris,whatever usable)? >> >> Nobody - I didn't say users couldn't boot from a FreeBSD/etc live CD, >> but zeroing the disk in Cygwin is an alternative. >> > Microsoft's format.exe can zero a volume, at least in the newer (>2008) > versions: > /p:<passes> : Zeros every sector on the volume for the number of passes > specified. > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730730(v=ws.10) -- If at first you don't succeed... ...so much for skydiving.
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