From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 19:24:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7610106566C for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:24:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfunk6@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6744F8FC19 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:24:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dfunk6@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090110192411.OFWU26835.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:24:11 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([24.253.242.220]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 1vQB1b00F4m1dn402vQBPb; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:24:11 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Fr8x0r-PAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=0E0gGXJm9kqsikd1JlMA:9 a=_ekHUCChptnHCobV8fgA:7 a=hV2BEFG6D_M7uZ4GQGAWDA5rY_0A:4 a=gIT7gwBIBqcA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=gi0PWCVxevcA:10 a=KOitZ9MNiXQyQuuIENAA:9 a=yMb4l3Sfb56UP11apOkA:7 a=obtFSeZty5hPsCf3Ul74qi-NE6EA:4 a=AfD3MYMu9mQA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Message-ID: <4968F5E6.2000803@cox.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:24:22 -0600 From: Derek Funk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Grant Peel Subject: [Re: wiping a drive with dd] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:24:12 -0000 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 To: freebsd-questions@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 _______________________________________________ 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"