Posted by: Joseph Cooper
on September 29, 2005 12:33 PM
I'm with most of the other posters on this.
It's such a mundane thing...
All you have to do is overwrite the first half meg (or half kilo? I can't remember) and the partition tables are blanked. Fdisk (Linux version, Windows, whichever) will just make a new table from scratch.
Just running DD til it gives up will handle the disk in it's entirety and have it all set to 0s.
Now, this could be a useful tool to have neatly packaged, and a lot of people don't use Linux CLI. I barely have any idea what I'm doing in CLI. It's still such a mundane tool though, it's like reviewing a new version of 'cat' or 'echo'.
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Posted by: Joseph Cooper on September 29, 2005 12:33 PMIt's such a mundane thing...
All you have to do is overwrite the first half meg (or half kilo? I can't remember) and the partition tables are blanked. Fdisk (Linux version, Windows, whichever) will just make a new table from scratch.
Just running DD til it gives up will handle the disk in it's entirety and have it all set to 0s.
Now, this could be a useful tool to have neatly packaged, and a lot of people don't use Linux CLI. I barely have any idea what I'm doing in CLI. It's still such a mundane tool though, it's like reviewing a new version of 'cat' or 'echo'.
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