Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:57:58 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Sebastian Pahlke <sp.ibm@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dd is so slow on my SCSI disc Message-ID: <430A7496.6080206@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <007301c5a755$ea1ee840$6701a8c0@monster> References: <007301c5a755$ea1ee840$6701a8c0@monster>
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Sebastian Pahlke wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to "clean" a disc before selling them: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 You may want to consider using /dev/random instead of, or in combination with, /dev/zero. Zeroing out a disk isn't a significant barrier to forensic analysis.
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