Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:01:03 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wipe a drive clean Message-ID: <486000FF.2090102@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <340a29540806231257x670cf398qc5bf11c396fd0afb@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540806231257x670cf398qc5bf11c396fd0afb@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having no luck finding hits for "wipe drive" or "zero drive" in > the mail list archives and I can't believe I'm the first to ask this > question but here it is anyway. How can I simply write 0's across a > USB thumb drive? I'd rather not install a port, if I can avoid it. I > was thinking that something like dd would work, but everything I've > tried thus far is not working. What suggestions does everyone have? Will... dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk ...work? Steve
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