Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:40:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wipe a drive clean Message-ID: <20080623223954.R9580@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <486000FF.2090102@ibctech.ca> References: <340a29540806231257x670cf398qc5bf11c396fd0afb@mail.gmail.com> <486000FF.2090102@ibctech.ca>
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>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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