[Re: wiping a drive with dd]

[Derek Funk]

I would use System Rescue boot disk from www.sysresccd.org
It has gparted which I would use to delete all partitions and create new.
Thats considering you have a functioning pc to access the net and burn 
an iso with.

Derek

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	wiping a drive with dd
Date: 	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500
From: 	gpeel <gpeel at thenetnow.com>
To: 	freebsd-questions at freebsd.org



Hi all,

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?).

-Grant
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