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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:55:41 -0500
From:      "gpeel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   wiping a drive with dd
Message-ID:  <20090110175323.M10662@thenetnow.com>

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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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